The awkward logic of "Anonymous" turns the initially stalwart Ben Jonson into a ludicrous double-dealer, who advances his supreme tribute...
156 months ago

In the character list for Lauren Gunderson's play The Book of Will, Ben Jonson is described as “Poet laureate of England” and a...
19 months ago

The biographical material on Jonson is extraordinarily rich. As well as the prolific abundance of his published work – plays, masques, poems,...
157 months ago

Bricklayer, scandal-monger, conspirator? Ben Jonson exhibition opens ... In a year when all eyes are on Shakespeare, a new exhibition at the...
100 months ago

Blair Worden · Seventeenth-century critics thought Ben Jonson England's finest writer. · Milton apart, no major author of 17 · Mindful of the...
145 months ago

By Ian Donaldson Some years ago, while I was working in Australia's national capital, Canberra, I was about to give a lecture on Ben Jonson...
140 months ago

Jonson married many contradictions (and a wife, of whom little is known and who plays virtually no role in this biography), and Donaldson delves...
154 months ago

“Ben Jonson is the person who tells us most about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson was a colleague of Shakespeare, in the sense that some of his...
2 months ago

Ben Jonson - Plays, Poetry, Achievement: Ben Jonson occupies by common consent the second place among English dramatists of the reigns of Elizabeth I and...
91 months ago

“You had time to contemplate its masonry/and recall that other jail, the temple/of muscle and flesh built by your trade/of bricklayer,...
2 weeks ago