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 ...

Shakespeare's friendly rival Ben Jonson had previously published his own writings, poems included, in a folio. The 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare, however, is the earliest folio consisting only of an ...

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 ...

We know he was still acting around this time because he appears on the billing for Ben Jonson’s play Sejanus. Dr Siobhan Keenan, Reader in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at De Montfort ...

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!

"In Bluestone’s poetry, the plays of Ben Jonson and the escapades of Harpo Marx go on forever ... In “The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity,” Shakespeare’s Lear, the biblical Isaac, and comedian Oliver ...

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 ...