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    Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 6 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry...
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    Ben Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) collected his plays and other writings into a book he titled The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. In 1616 it...
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    works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous...
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  • Sons of Ben were followers of Ben Jonson in English poetry and drama in the first half of the seventeenth century. These men followed Ben Jonson's philosophy...
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  • 1983), Australian cyclist Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English poet and dramatist Ben Johnson (actor) (1918–1996), American actor Ben Johnson (artist) (born 1946)...
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    the style of the plays of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. The term English Renaissance theatre encompasses the period between 1562—following...
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  • between the imaginary space within the play and the outside world.: 2  Ben Jonson has often been noted as using the prologue to remind the audience of the...
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  • surname include: Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor Björn Jonson (born 1940), Swedish professor Fredric Jonson (born 1987)...
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    first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which...
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    in three acts by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson's 1609 comedy Epicœne, or The Silent Woman. Since Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier...
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