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Apr 26, 2012 · He is best known today for a handful of lyrics, most famously those beginning “Drink to me only with thine eyes” and “Have you seen but a white lily grow?” (both inseparable from their exquisite musical settings), and for the two great satirical comedies Volpone (circa 1605) and The Alchemist (1610). Continue reading. for just $1 an issue!
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Jun 10, 2021 · Arrested for murder, Jonson was held in Newgate Prison, where the company and counsel of a Catholic priest – likely facing martyrdom at Tyburn – persuaded Jonson to be received into the Church. Jonson was convicted of murder, but released on a legal technicality.
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Poet, Playwright and Actor. 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.
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Last updated on November 8, 2010. Background by Anniina Jokinen through the kind permission of PamBytes. Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist, Playwright, and Poet, Competitor to William Shakespeare. Writer of Masques, Plays, Poetry, and Epigrams. Life, works, and resources.
Oct 28, 2012 · Ben Jonson Biography. Jonson was a charismatic person who fascinated his contemporaries. His work was scholarly, the result, perhaps of several years of classical schooling he received as a boy and many years of self-tutelage in later life. He never went to university (though both Oxford and Cambridge later awarded him honorary degrees).
Apr 11, 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 .
