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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ben_JonsonBen Jonson - Wikipedia

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   Jonson described his wife to William Drummond as "a shrew, yet honest". The identity of Jonson's wife is obscure, though she sometimes is identified as "Ann Lewis", the woman who married a Benjamin Jonson in 1594, at the church of St Magnus-the-Martyr, near London Bridge.

2. www.notablebiographies.com › Jo-Ki › Jonson-BenBen Jonson Biography - life, parents, death, mother, young ...

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   Ben Jonson was probably born in or near London, England, about a month after the death of his father, a clergyman (someone who works for the church). His father gained his position when King Henry VIII (1491–1547) ruled England, but lost it after Queen Mary (1516–1558) took the throne.

3. www.westminster-abbey.org › ben-jonsonBen Jonson - Westminster Abbey

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   Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey. He was born on 11th June 1572 but little is known about his parents. The family was of Scottish descent and his father became a clergymen.

4. englishhistory.net › poets › ben-jonsonBen Jonson - English History

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   Nov 18, 2021 · Two years after his birth, Jonson’s mother married a bricklayer, and Jonson went to school in St Martin’s Lane. Despite the fact that the family was poor, Jonson received a good education after a family friend paid for his studies at Westminster school.

5. universitypublishingonline.org › cambridge › benLife of Ben Jonson | The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson

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   The gradual modern recovery of Jonson has built upon the monumental labours of his Oxford editors, C. H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson (Ben Jonson, 11 vols., 1925–52), and has been aided by an ever-growing body of criticism and scholarship.

6. universitypublishingonline.org › cambridge › benLife of Ben Jonson | The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson

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   Though the precise dates of Jonson's five-year residence in Blackfriars with the King's cousin Esmé Stuart, Seigneur d'Aubigny, have been variously assigned, the stay may well have begun in 1603, not long after Aubigny's arrival in London from Scotland with the royal party in May of that year.

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   Where was Ben Jonson born?

   • Ben Jonson was probably born in or near London, England, about a month after the death of his father, a clergyman (someone who works for the church). His father gained his position when King Henry VIII (1491–1547) ruled England, but lost it after Queen Mary (1516–1558) took the throne. Jonson's mother then married a bricklayer.

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   Who was Ben Jonson?

   • In many peoples opinion he was, next to William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the greatest dramatic genius of the English Renaissance (roughly the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries). Ben Jonson was probably born in or near London, England, about a month after the death of his father, a clergyman (someone who works for the church).

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   How did Johnson's name change from 'Jonson' to 'Ben'?

   • In its southward progress, his family name had shifted to the commoner English spelling, ‘Johnson’; yet ‘Jonson’ was to be the poet's own favoured spelling in all surviving examples of his autograph, and in his published work from 1604 onwards. ‘Ben’ was the version of his forename by which he would be commonly known.

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   Where did Jonson's parents live?

   • While Jonson was still a ‘little child’ in ‘his long coats’, however, his mother married again, this time to a bricklayer, and the family moved to Hartshorn (or Christopher) Lane, a narrow alleyway which ran from the Strand to Thames-side wharves, not far from Charing Cross (Early Lives, Fuller).

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   How did Benjamin Jonson die?

   • He lived in London and made a living through his writing, even being named the “first poet laureate”. Towards the end of his life, Jonson suffered several strokes which left him bedridden, and he died in 1637. Benjamin Jonson was born around June 11, 1572, in Westminster, England, shortly after the death of his father.

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   Who influenced Ben Jonson?

   • Westminster School master William Camden cultivated the artistic genius of Ben Jonson. The Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden was friend and confidant to Jonson.

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8. www.writersinspire.org › content › ben-jonson-renaissanceBen Jonson: Renaissance Playwright, Renaissance Man

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   Apr 11, 2012 · Ben Jonson 1572-1637) was an early modern playwright whose popularity rivaled that of Shakespeare or Marlowe. He spent multiple stints in prison, wrote masques in which the Queen of England and Prince of Wales performed, and was crowned England's first poet laureate.