To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. And such wert thou. Look how the father's face. As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. That so did take Eliza and our James! Advanc'd, and made a constellation there! And despairs day, but for thy volume's light.
Ben Jonson - his life, work, and relationship with Shakespeare
An in-depth look at Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson with analysis of his plays, Volpone and more.
Ben Jonson and Shakespeare
Doran: Ben Jonson loved Shakespeare this side of idolatry, calling him 'Thou star of poets,' and of course: that he was 'Not for an age but for all time'. But he was also critical of his friend: he insisted that Shakespeare lacked art, citing how he had …
The Man Who Knew Shakespeare - The New York Times Web …
The vicar of the Stratford church, John Ward, wrote that the trio of poets -- Ben Jonson, Michael Drayton and Shakespeare -- met in April 1616 for ''a merry meeting and it seems drank too...
What Was The Ben Jonson / William Shakespeare Friendship?
May 13, 2013 · Jonson was pals with Shakespeare (and defended him often), but considered himself a genius and Shakespeare a hack (he often heckled Shakespeare’s plays). …and I realized that I probably have a lot to learn about this aspect of Shakespeare’s life.
Ben Jonson - Shakespeare Studies - New York University
Oct 2, 2024 · Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, and lyric; in …
A close look at Ben Jonson’s Dedication to Shakespeare
Nov 28, 2018 · At some point in the early 1620s when Ben Jonson set himself to write the "Ode to Shakespeare" with which he and the Pembrokes launched the First Folio, part of the daunting task he faced as lead editor was the need to make a more solid connection between the plays and the putative author, William…
To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare
Complete summary of Ben Jonson's To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of To the Memory of My Beloved Master William...
There are two utterances to which the orthodox appeal as conclusive evidence, viz.: the lines bearing Jonson’s signature prefixed to the Folio of 1623, and the much-quoted passage De Shakespeare nostrati in his Timber or Discoveries. Let us first consider the evidence of the Folio.
Key ideas: — Ben Jonson names the hidden writer ‘See-more’ (Shakespeare); ll.1-2. — Elizabeth R is responsible for the Tudor-Seymour displacement; ll.3-16. — Jonson will not inter ‘Shakespeare’ with Chaucer, Spenser, or Beaumont (in Westminster); ll. 17-21.