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  1. Apr 11, 2024 · Ben Jonson 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. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605),

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  2. Mar 25, 2024 · Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's slightly younger contemporary, is the earliest English author who left behind enough evidence to make a literary biography possible. Not that the evidence is, by modern standards, voluminous. We do not know for certain when Jonson was born, who his father was or how long he went to school.

  3. Apr 7, 2024 · Ben Jonson work from 1603 may contain ‘lost’ Shakespeare sonnet, say experts. 23 Mar 2023. Shakespeare portrait said to be only one made in his lifetime on sale for £10m. 16 Nov 2022.

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  4. Apr 5, 2024 · 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 three spindles (rhombi) in the Jonson family coat of arms: one spindle is a diamond-shaped heraldic device used by the Johnston family.

  5. Apr 7, 2024 · William Shakespeare played a jealous husband in a 1598 drama by fellow playwright Ben Jonson, an academic has suggested. Dr Darren Freebury-Jones, a lecturer in Shakespeare studies at the ...

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  7. 3 days ago · Her book delves into Ben Johnson’s initial steroid use in late 1981, the era’s lax doping control, the widespread doping prevalence in the 1980s, and the methods used to evade and mask ...

  8. 2 days ago · Jonson, Ben. 1616. The Workes of Beniamin Jonson neque me vt miretur turba, laboro: Contentus paucis lectoribus. London: printed by W: Stansby and are to be sould by Rich: Meighen.

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