The verbal wit and gender fluidity of his comedies owe much to John Lyly’s courtly style, and traces of some of Ben Jonson’s ...

Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey. Jonson always seemed to be poor, in spite of gifts from royalty, and he died in great poverty in ...

The verbal wit and gender fluidity of his comedies owe much to John Lyly’s courtly style, and traces of some of Ben Jonson’s ...

Seven years after Shakespeare's death ... book's preface was written by another of the leading Elizabethan dramatists, Ben Jonson, who paid him a fulsome tribute: "Soul of the age!

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson presents Jonson's complete writings in the light of current editorial thinking and recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. It provides a clear ...

Although Jackson does not name the plays directly, we know from his accounts of them that he was referring to Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610) and Shakespeare’s Othello (1603-4). While ...

In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from ...

400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age ...

Before Shakespeare the only playwright known to have been so honoured was his contemporary Ben Jonson, who honoured himself by overseeing The Workes Of Benjamin Jonson in 1616. While the British ...