Bard bashing has become something of a national sport, says Robert McCrum, and the latest attempt to rewrite the legacy of ...

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 was a younger contemporary of Shakespeare. He was a playwright and poet of the highest caliber. The distance of the four centuries blurs the sharp particulars of the trials all must go ...

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 ...

Tudor playwrights Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and Gabriel Spenser take on Shakespeare himself in a rap/sing off. Shakespeare loved to write, but didn't approve of what some of his friends got ...

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!

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 ...

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 ...