1. Ben Jonson - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Ben Jonson married, some time before 1594, a woman he described to Drummond as a shrew, yet honest. His wife has not been definitively identified, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson

Ben Jonson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Ben Jonson Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, c. Born c. 11 June Westminster London ... England Died 6 August Westminster London England ... poet and actor For other persons of the same name, see Ben Johnson (disambiguation) Benjamin Jonson c. 11 June 6 August ) was an English Renaissance dramatist poet and actor . A contemporary of William Shakespeare , he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone and The Alchemist which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets. Contents Early life Ben Jonson's ascendance Decline and death His Work ... edit Early life Although he was born in Westminster London , Jonson claimed his family was of Scottish Border country descent, and this claim may have been supported by the fact that his coat of arms bears three spindles or rhombi , a device shared by a Borders family, the Johnstones of Annandale . His father died a month before Ben's birth, and his mother remarried two years later, to a master

2. Ben Jonson --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Ben Jonson English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9043961/Ben-Jonson

var britAdCategory = "literature"; Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home Blog Advocacy Board ... Free Trial Britannica Online Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Theatrical career His masques at court His prime and later life His plays and achievement ... Print this Table of Contents Linked Articles Philip Henslowe Lord Chamberlain's Shakespeare humours ... Inigo Jones Shopping New! Britannica Book of the Year The Ultimate Review of 2007. 2007 Britannica Encyclopedia Set (32-Volume Set) Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. New! Britannica 2008 Ultimate DVD/CD-ROM The world's premier software reference source. Ben Jonson Page 1 of 5 born June 11?, 1572, London, Eng. died Aug. 6, 1637, London Ben Jonson, color illustration after a miniature in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle Corbis-Bettmann byname of Benjamin Jonson 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. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour Volpone Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman

3. Ben Jonson Ben Jonson. Portrait of Ben Jonson. Isacc Oliver (attrib.) By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Jonson, like Shakespeare, came from modest http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/drama/jonson.html

Home Performance Resources Search ... Links Ben Jonson Navigation: Intro Home Help Map ... Next Portrait of Ben Jonson. Isacc Oliver (attrib.) By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library Jonson, like Shakespeare, came from modest beginningshis father was a bricklayerbut he was a man of great learning, widely read in both the Greek and Latin classical authors. Often contentious, even irascible , he was nonetheless generous in his estimation of Shakespeare's work Jonson must have known Shakespeare well. His first major success on the stage, Every Man in His Humour, was first acted in 1598; when the play was published in 1616 (the year of Shakespeare's death), the title- page included a list of "The principal Comoedians," and heading the list is "Will Shakespeare." (There is a tradition that Shakespeare acted the part of an old man, the elder Knowell.) Jonson's plays His great plays are his satirical comedies, especially Volpone Epicoene The Alchemist (1610), and

4. Ben Jonson Biography And Summary Ben Jonson biography with 609 pages of profile on Ben Jonson sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Ben_Jonson

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5. BEN JONSON : Discoveries And Some Poems, By Ben Jonson BEN JONSON Discoveries and some poems, by Ben Jonson. http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Ben_Jonson/

Poems Home Find a Poet Classic Poems Poetry Forums ... Search New! Fiction Forums and Online Books Visit our critical fiction and non-fiction forums at Everyauthor.com Recent poems and topics at Everypoet's Poetry Free-for-all and biographies of US presidents Automobile and car news and specs internet advertising networks search engines ... poems and poets crossword puzzles word search and jigsaw puzzles office humor games and jokes (get Michael Jackson T-shirts Bible verses and literature Dictionary, encyclopedia, factbook and music search Avant News: Deadpan satire from plausible futures ... Archive of Classic Poems BEN JONSON DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTER AND SOME POEMS Contents Introduction by Henry Morley Sylva Timber, or Discoveries ...

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7. Ben Jonson - Wikiquote Benjamin Jonson (11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. He is best known for his plays Volpone and The http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson

Ben Jonson From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Benjamin Jonson 11 June ... 6 August ) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. He is best known for his plays Volpone and The Alchemist , his lyrics, his influence on Jacobean and Caroline poets, his theory of humours, his contentious personality, and his friendship and rivalry with William Shakespeare Contents Sourced The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616) Epigrams The Forest ... edit Sourced Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. Every Man out of His Humour (1598), Act I, sc. i Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears: Yet, slower, yet; O faintly, gentle springs: List to the heavy part the music bears, Woe weeps out her division, when she sings. Droop herbs, and flowers, Fall grief in showers, Our beauties are not ours; O, I could still, Like melting snow upon some craggy hill, Drop, drop, drop, drop, Since nature's pride is now, a withered daffodil. Cynthia's Revels (1600), Act I, sc. i True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.

8. Poetry Anthology - Ben Jonson Ben Jonson (15721637). An Elegy Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H. A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme Her Triumph A Hymn to God the Father Inviting a Friend http://www.web-books.com/classics/Poetry/anthology/Jonson/index.htm

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9. Ben Jonson Ben Jonson further related that he was born a month after the death of his father, who, after suffering in estate and person under Queen Mary, http://www.nndb.com/people/168/000025093/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Ben Jonson Born: 11-Jun Birthplace: London, England Died: 6-Aug Location of death: London, England Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Westminster Abbey, London Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Playwright Nationality: England Executive summary: Volpone English dramatist, born probably in Westminster, in the beginning of the year 1573 (or possibly, if he reckoned by the unadopted modern calendar, 1572). By the poet's account his grandfather had been a gentleman who came from Carlisle, and originally, the grandson thought, from Annandale. His arms, "three spindles or rhombi", are the family device of the Johnstones of Annandale, a fact which confirms his assertion of Border descent. Ben Jonson further related that he was born a month after the death of his father, who, after suffering in estate and person under Queen Mary , had in the end "turned minister." Two years after the birth of her son the widow married again; she may be supposed to have loved him in a passionate way peculiar to herself, since on one occasion we find her revealing an almost ferocious determination to save his honor at the cost of both his life and her own. Jonson's stepfather was a master bricklayer, living in Hartshorn Lane, near Charing Cross, who provided his stepson with the foundations of a good education. After attending a private school in St. Martin's Lane, the boy was sent to Westminster School at the expense, it is said, of William Camden. Jonson's gratitude for an education to which in truth he owed an almost inestimable debt concentrated itself upon the "most reverend head" of his benefactor, then second and afterwards head master of the famous school, and the firm friend of his pupil in later life.

10. Ben Jonson (1572-1637) ben jonson, Renaissance Dramatist, Playwright, and Poet, Competitor to William Shakespeare. Writer of Masques, Plays, Poetry, and Epigrams. http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/

After Abraham van Blyenberch, 1618. National Portrait Gallery , London. to English Renaissance Drama to Cavalier Poets to English Literature: Early 17th Century Created by Anniina Jokinen on June 17, 1996. Last updated on May 2, 2007. Jonson portrait National Portrait Gallery , London. Used with permission. Background by Anniina Jokinen through the kind permission of PamBytes Music: "The Three Ravens" : English Traditional. Sequenced by Curtis Clark. Used with permission of the Internet Renaissance Band

11. Ben Jonson Biography of Elizabethan playwright ben Jonsonplus links to all of his works currently in print. http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc11.htm

BEN JONSON (1572-1637) Born in London in 1573, Ben Jonson would be no stranger to tragedy. His Protestant fatherwho had been imprisoned and deprived of his estate during the Catholic reign of Mary Tudorhad died only a month earlier, and his mother, left penniless and with no means of supporting her young son, was forced to marry a bricklayer. But despite these tragic beginnings, it was for his humor that Ben Jonson would be known. At Westminster school, the scholar Camden recognized Jonson's exceptional literary gifts and took the young man under his tutelage. Though Jonson never received a university education, Camden's instruction proved more than adequate. He became one of the most learned men of Elizabethan times and eventually received honorary degrees from both universities. Perhaps in remembrance of his father, Jonson enlisted with the English supporters of the Protestant Hollanders who were defending their religious and political liberties against Catholicism and Spanish rule. The fiery young poet proved to be as formidable with the sword as he was with the pen. In one particular act of bravado, he advanced before the English volunteers, challenged a Spaniard to single combat, slew him, and thenin classic Homeric traditionstripped the corpse of its armor. In 1592, he returned to London and married a woman whom he would later describe as "a shrew, yet honest." In 1596, she gave birth to a son whom Jonson called his "best piece of poetry." He was devestated when the young boy was struck down with the plague at the age of seven.

12. Ben Jonson: Biography A biography and overview of the writer s major works. http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/jonson001.html

BEN JONSON This biography was originally published in Elizabethan and Stuart Plays . Ed. Charles Read Baskerville. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934. pp. 827-830. Purchase Plays by Ben Jonson Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, very little is known of his career until July 28, 1597, when Henslowe The Isle of Dogs . Probably for his share with Nashe in the writing of this play, Jonson was imprisoned in the Marshalsea until an order was signed on October 3 for his release. In the same year he is thought to have composed The Case Is Altered , a comedy in the manner of Chapman . By September, 1598, he had acquired sufficient reputation to be accounted by Francis Meres one of the best for tragedy, but Meres' basis for such a pronouncement can now be but a subject of conjecture. About the middle of September, however, Jonson's reputation as a writer of comedy was definitely established when Every Man in His Humor was played by the Lord Chamberlain's Company at the Curtain, a performance in which Shakespeare acted a part, possibly that of elder Knowell. On September 22, 1598, Jonson killed his fellow-actor, Gabriel Spencer, in a duel. When brought to trial, he confessed and claimed right of clergy; his property was confiscated and his thumb branded. The following year he collaborated with Dekker in two plays now lost, The Page of Plymouth and Robert the Second, King of Scots

13. Ben Jonson Very little is known of the early life of poet, essayist, and playwright ben jonson. He was born in 1572 in London, England. His father, a minister, http://www.poets.org/bjons/

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15. Ben Jonson A biography of Elizabethan dramatist ben jonson; includes a list of related links. http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/ben_jonson_001.html

Home Ancient Theatre Medieval Theatre 16th Century ... 20th Century BEN JONSON (1574-1637) This article was originally published in A Short History of the Drama IN the group of playwrights immediately surrounding Shakespeare , who with him were perhaps accustomed to gather in the Mermaid Tavern, were Ben Jonson, Webster Ford Beaumont and Fletcher Chapman , Marston, and Dekker . Among these Jonson was easily the first, both in the quality of his genius and the amount of his work. He was a man of enormous learning, poet laureate, a soldier in Flanders, an actor, and hack writer for Henslowe . He appeared first as a playwright in the late years of the sixteenth century, at the moment when Shakespeare and the romantic comedies were at the height of their popularity. To some extent he was obliged to conform to the prevailing taste; but his natural inclination was toward the classic and regular style rather than toward the romantic; and his "humour" was satirical rather than sentimental. Jonson's plays fall roughly into three groups: the realistic comedies, the tragedies, and the

16. In Search Of Shakespeare . Ben Jonson | PBS A brief biography, images from theatrical productions, links to key historical references. http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/players/player30.html

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17. The Ben Jonson Journal Details on subscription to the journal plus contents lists for previous volumes. Articles are not available on line but the opening paragraph of each can be http://www.geocities.com/benjonsonjournal/benjonsonjournal.htm

The Ben Jonson Journal Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles PREVIEW VOLUME 10 The Ben Jonson Journal is published through the generous sponsorship of Raymond Alden, Provost of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and with the support of James Frey, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, John Henry Irsfeld, Chair of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, English Department, and Patricia O'Brien, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. Contributions and editions and editorial correspondence should be sent to: The Editors, The Ben Jonson Journal , Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5069. E-mail correspondence should be addressed to Richard.Harp@ccmail.nevada.edu. The guide for stylistic matters is The Chicago Manual of Style . For article and note submissions, please, if at all possible, make an electronic submission to Richard Harp's e-mail address. If this is not possible, please send four paper copies to The Editors for review. Copies should be accompanied by return postage. Upon acceptance, constributors will need to supply a computer disk with the article in MS Word 6.0 or ASCII format. We ask that contributors also supply an electronic mail address, phone number, and fax number for the sake of expedient communication. Book reviews are assigned by the editors. Subscriptions are $25/year postpaid for both individuals and libraries. Subscribers outside the United States should add $12.00 (in U.S. currency) for postage and handling (or $20 for delivery by air). Subscriptions and business correspondence should be sent to: Locust Hill Press, P.O. Box 260, West Cornwall, CT 06796. Tel. (860) 672-0060; Fax (860) 672-4968; e-mail: locusthill@optonline.net

18. Ben Jonson Quotes - The Quotations Page ben jonson (1572 1637) English dramatist poet more author details ben jonson; Language most shews a man Speak, that I may see thee. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ben_Jonson/

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19. Ben Jonson @Web English Teacher Biography and links to poems by ben jonson. ben jonson Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Biography and links to writing. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/jonson.html

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Home Poets' Graves Search by Surname Search by Location Other Poets Maps of Poets' Graves Poetry Resources Poetry Forum Glossary Poetic Terms Classic Poems Poets Laureate UK ... Poetry Links Other Graves Writers Musicians Artists What's New on PG Related Site Literary Norfolk Ben Jonson 'O rare Ben Jonson' Ben Jonson is buried upright in the north aisle of the Nave of Westminster Abbey, London, England. (See map...ref no. 14) He told the Dean: "six feet long by two feet wide is too much for me. Two feet by two is all I want". His name was incorrectly spelled when his gravestone was later renewed. In 1616 he became the first (unofficial) Poet Laureate when he was granted a pension by James I. He was undoubtedly one of the most important of the seventeenth-century poets. His poetry embraced classical ideals but dealt uncompromisingly with the life and characters of James 1's court. He is particularly remembered for his epigrams and epitaphs. Burial Stone of Ben Jonson He also was one of the pre-eminent poets to frequent the famous Mermaid Tavern in Bread Street. His work influenced many younger poets including

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