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List of Ben Jonson plays with descriptions, including any musicals by Ben Jonson, playwright. This Ben Jonson plays list includes promotional photos when available, as well as information about co-writers and Ben Jonson characters.
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Benjamin Jonson ( c. 11 June 1572 – c. 6 August 1637) [2] was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy.
- Before 1597 – 1637
- English Renaissance
The most performed of Ben Jonson’s plays are: Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Ben Jonson was an experienced man of the world - a playwright, poet and soldier, who had fought in several campaigns in Europe.
His plays and 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.
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),
- Clifford Leech
Best Plays by Ben Jonson. Actor, Bricklayer, Soldier, Felon, Poet. Ben Jonson is largely considered one the greatest literary minds and influences in English Literature. He is most well known for popularising the Comedy of Humors.
The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature.
