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Jun 12, 2024 · Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) was an English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.
Jun 12, 2024 · Professor of English, University of Toronto, 1963–74. Author of The Dramatist's Experience with Other Essays in Critical Theory and others; editor of Marlowe: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Jun 5, 2024 · Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, and lyric; in prose, literary criticism and English grammar.
6 days ago · Ben Jonson was born in Westminster, London, in 1572. His early life was marked by both promise and hardship. His father, a clergyman, died shortly before Jonson's birth, and his mother remarried a master bricklayer. Despite these challenges, Jonson's educational journey laid the groundwork for his future literary success.
2 days ago · Ipswich Town are in advanced talks to sign West Ham defender Ben Johnson, the EADT and Ipswich Star understands. The 24-year-old - who has made 69 appearances in the Premier League - is set to ...
Jun 14, 2024 · Benjamin Jonson ( c. 11 June 1572 – c. 6 August 1637) [2] was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy.
Jun 11, 2024 · It’s his birthday today. Ben Jonson did everything. Plays, poems, satires, elegies, epigrams. His talent was wide and flexible. Everything he wrote feels inevitable. However, as Michael Schmidt writes in his wonderful Lives of the Poets: “Jonson suffers one irremediable disability: Shakespeare.”
