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Ben Jonson - Plays, Poetry, Achievement: Ben Jonson occupies by common consent the second place among English dramatists of the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. He was a man of contraries. For “twelve years a papist,” he was also—in fact though not in title—Protestant England’s first poet laureate. His major comedies express a strong distaste for the world in which he lived and a ...
Alison Searle — Ben Jonson and Religion 4 William Drummond records in his later conversations with Jonson, that Ôhe took his religion by trust of a priest who visited him in prison. Thereafter he was twelve years a papist.Õ11 It is probable that the priest who converted him was Thomas Wright. Unlike
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.. In midlife, Jonson said his paternal grandfather, who "served King Henry 8 and was a gentleman", was a member of the extended Johnston family of Annandale in the Dumfries and Galloway, a genealogy that is attested by the ...
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in a duel, Ben Jonson, astonishingly, converted to the forbidden religion, Roman Catholicism: "Then took he his religion by trust of a priest who visited him in prison. Thereafter he was twelve years a papist" ( Conversa-tions , 203-5). 1 The priest may have been Thomas Wright, a loyalist, anti-
Ben Jonson From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck. New York: American Book Company, 1913. Life. About nine years after the birth of Shakespeare his greatest successor in the English drama was born in London. Jonson outlived Shakespeare twenty-one years and helped to usher in the decline of the drama.
Ben Jonson is among the best-known writers and theorists of English Renaissance literature, second in reputation only to Shakespeare. A prolific dramatist and a man of letters highly learned in the classics, he profoundly influenced the Augustan age through his emphasis on the precepts of Horace, Aristotle, and other classical Greek and Latin thinkers.
