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Get a glimpse into the lives and works of dramatists like Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, whose plays are still performed regularly today.
The intense rivalry among the playwrights created a ‘golden age’ of English drama through the Jacobean era. Below is an overview of Shakespeare’s contemporaries – those key figures who were writing at the same time as Shakespeare.
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Summary. Hobbes generated more hostile literature than any other thinker in the seventeenth century. Indeed, if judged by the number of hostile books and pamphlets he generated, he may well be the most maligned philosopher of all time.
- G. A. J. Rogers
- 2007
Aside from the university wits, Shakespeare’s most important contemporary was Ben Jonson, a bricklayer’s son and self-taught writer whose best plays were as popular as Shakespeare’s. Jonson’s most successful comedies, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair , had English settings that were more familiar to audiences than the mostly foreign ...
Shakespeare's contemporaries. George Chapman. From Shakespeare's England. In the ferment of ideas, plots, images and stage effects, the dramatists of the early seventeenth century borrowed ideas from each other, competed, and admired each other.
Shakespeare Through The Ages. Shakespeare’s Contemporaries. View Metadata. Ben Jonson (1572-1637) The Workes of Beniamin Jonson. London: Imprinted at London by Will Stansby, 1616. Ben Jonson was both a friend of and theatrical rival to William Shakespeare. He entered the theater in the 1590s and continued to write until very late in life.
May 18, 2023 · John Morley was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the son of a doctor who wanted him to become a clergyman. Disenchanted with the “High Church” and quarreling with his father, he left Oxford without an honors degree and pursued Law. He was called to the bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1873.
