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 ...
The major questions that have been raised and that will be addressed here are whether the contemporaneous record of the man and playwright is suspect; whether the "Soul of the Age" (as Ben Jonson ...
George Vertue (1684-1786) after Gerard van Honthorst (1590-1656), English playwright, poet, and actor Ben Jonson (1572-1637), 1730 The most important fact about Ben Jonson (1572–1637) is that he was ...
Playwright Ben Jonson was a sharp critic and rival of William Shakespeare and won more favor from British royalty and scholars of the time. King James I gave Jonson an annual allowance of wine, and ...
Two Fine Biographies: John Paul Jones and Rare Ben Jonson—Aesthete, Model 1927: the American Caravan
He is thoroughly sympathetic towards Paul Jones, but has as keen an eye for his weaknesses as for his virtues. On the vexed question of why John Paul took unto himself the name of Jones, Mr. Russell’s ...
AUTHORS are apt to be popularly considered as physically a feeble folk, — as timid, nervous, dyspeptic rhymers or prosers, unfitted to grapple with the rough realities of life. We shall endeavor, in ...
Eulogizing Shakespeare in 1623, Ben Jonson mischievously noted that the departed author had “small Latin and less Greek.” That perplexing dig helped to spawn the legend of Shakespeare as a ...
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