Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 18 August [O.S. 6 August] 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy.

2025年1月1日 · Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) was an English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after …

The poet, essayist, and playwright Ben Jonson was born on June 11, 1572 in London, England. His father, a minister, died shortly before his birth and his mother remarried a bricklayer.

2025年1月1日 · Professor of English, University of Toronto, 1963–74. Author of The Dramatist's Experience with Other Essays in Critical Theory and others; editor of Marlowe: A Collection of Critical Essays.

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 Horace, Aristotle, and other classical Greek and Latin ...

2021年11月18日 · (Benjamin) Ben Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 — c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet, best known for his satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614), as …

Jonson became one of the most successful writers of his era. In addition to writing numerous masques, including Entertainment at Althorpe and The Masque of Blackness, Jonson wrote his four most famous plays, considered his major comedies— Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene, and Bartholomew Fair — all within eight years.

2024年10月2日 · Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, and lyric; in …

What was Ben Johnson’s writing style? Ben Jonson’s writing style was characterized by its classical learning, wit, and satire. He was a master of satirical plays. He also wrote masques, …

An in-depth look at Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson with analysis of his plays, Volpone and more.