Lecturer says it is known that William Shakespeare acted in his own plays - Hulton Archive/Getty Images William Shakespeare played a jealous husband in a 1598 drama by fellow playwright Ben Jonson, an ...

Everyone has heard of William Shakespeare (well, almost everyone). And no one (in a manner of speaking) has heard of Ben Jonson. In their day, however (the early 17th century)-- these two were like ...

So claimed Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare’s friend and contemporary upon the man’s passing in 1616 at age 52. Which has turned out to be the case. Shockingly, it almost wasn’t so. Ten years after the ...

“Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live.” — Ben Jonson on William Shakespeare Years ago, I saw a copy of the 1623 First Folio put together by two of ...

Inscribed on the grand neoclassical façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library is the famed tribute to the playwright by his contemporary, Ben Jonson: “Thou art a monument, without a tombe, / And art ...

The painting described is a supposed portrait of Shakespeare with Ben Jonson. A large part of the book is quoted from reports by Dr. Paul Wislicenus and Dr. Maximilian Toch, attributing the paintingto ...