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 ...

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 plays, in which Shakespeare acted, show up in his writing.

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!

Patron Henry Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, believed by many to be the male subject of Shakespeare's love sonnets. Ben Jonson, contemporary dramatist, dismissed Shakespeare's style and ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson presents Jonson's complete writings ... The London Review of Books "You can turn from Shakespeare to Jonson the way you can from Michelangelo to Titian ...

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 ...