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Jul 30, 2020 · Analysis of Ben Jonson’s Poems Jonson articulated his break with the theater of his day in his prologue to the revised version of Everyman in His Humour, declaring his allegiance as a comic writer to “deedes, and language, such as men doe use,” and to the presentation of an “Image of the times,” embodied in ordinary characters and everyday circumstances—“with humane follies, not with crimes.”
Ben Jonson 1572-1637. Poet Ben Jonson was a towering figure among the English writers of the late 16 th and early 17 th centuries. Although William Shakespeare is now regarded as the most significant writer of the time, and indeed, of all time, Jonson dominated the playwriting scene during that period. He was a satirist, playwright, poet and ...
Every Man in His Humour, comic drama in five acts that established the reputation of Ben Jonson, performed in London by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1598 and revised sometime before its publication in the folio edition of 1616. With its galleries of grotesques, its scornful detachment, and its rather academic effect, the play introduced to the English stage a vigorous and direct anatomizing of “the time’s deformities”—the language, habits, and humours of the contemporary London scene.
Ben Jonson is among the best-known writers and theorists of English Renaissance literature, second in reputation only to Shakespeare. A prolific dramatist and a man of letters highly learned in the classics, he profoundly influenced the Augustan age through his emphasis on the precepts of...
Ben Jonson was a masterful poet as well as a dramatist. His poetry, with some justification, has the reputation of being remote from modern readers. A dedicated classicist, Jonson emphasized ...
Ben Jonson (originally Benjamin Jonson; c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, and literary critic of the seventeenth century, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Foxe (1605), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy (1614), and for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the ...
Sep 9, 2023 · Jonson later claimed that Spencer’s sword was ten inches longer than his own and that he had been wounded in the arm before he fought back. The indictment, however, reports that it was Jonson who ‘feloniously and wilfully struck and beat’ Spencer with a rapier, before striking him ‘a mortal wound, of the depth of six inches and of the breadth of one inch’.
