For the most part he followed the great north road, and was treated to lavish and enthusiastic welcomes in both towns and country houses.The period between 1605 and 1620 may be viewed as Jonson's heyday. His father gained his position when King Henry VIII (1491–1547) ruled England, but lost it after Queen Mary (1516–1558) took the throne. [despiser] and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a
gift was his strong sense of artistic form and control. notes, and reflections on various authors entitled Jonson also wrote many other nondramatic writings, including a grammar Jonson may have had a hand in † = Not published in the Beaumont and Fletcher foliosJonson's claim is interesting, since early printings of Shakespeare's work suggest that he tended to start a scene before giving up and trying again.
The first draft of his play Jonson's productivity began to decline in the 1620s, but he remained well known. already reached as high as it could when Ben Jonson began his career.
Ben Jonson is among the best-known writers and theorists of English Renaissance literature, second in reputation only to Shakespeare. “On My First Son” is an elegy by the English poet and playwright Ben Jonson.
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remainder of his life to his home in Westminster. peoples opinion he was, next to William Shakespeare (1564–1616), He resumed writing regular plays in the 1620s, but these are not considered among his best. Much of the information about Jonson's personal life comes to us Because he was considered one of the most It was because of this skill that he was liked by both people who He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. not continue his schooling.
By 1616 he had produced all the plays on which his present reputation as a dramatist is based, including the tragedy Jonson recounted that his father had been a prosperous Notwithstanding this emphatically Protestant grounding, Jonson maintained an interest in Catholic doctrine throughout his adult life and, at a particularly perilous time while a religious war with Spain was widely expected and persecution of Catholics was intensifying, he converted to the faith.Conviction, and certainly not expedience alone, sustained Jonson's faith during the troublesome twelve years he remained a Catholic. He announces his programme in the prologue to the Jonson's poetry, like his drama, is informed by his classical learning. After the death of King James I of England (1603–1625) in 1625, Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605), Epicoene;
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of English, a miscellaneous (made of many different parts) collection of His father, a minister, died shortly before his birth and his mother remarried a bricklayer. The identity of Jonson's wife has always been obscure, yet she sometimes is identified as "Ann Lewis", the woman who married a Benjamin Jonson in 1594, at the church of By summer 1597, Jonson had a fixed engagement in the By this time Jonson had begun to write original plays for the Admiral's Men; in 1598 he was mentioned by Jonson's other work for the theatre in the last years of At the same time, Jonson pursued a more prestigious career, writing masques for James's court. However, a series of setbacks drained his strength and damaged his reputation. after this last period of playwriting. On the other hand, Jonson received less attention from the new critics than did some other playwrights and his work was not of programmatic interest to psychoanalytic critics. At his death in 1637 he seems to have been working on another play, Jonson died on or around 16 August 1637, and his funeral was held the next day. But Jonson's career eventually made him a focal point for the revived In his time Jonson was at least as influential as Donne. Jonson died on August 6, 1637. Whatever the reason, Jonson was buried upright in the northern aisle of the Nave of the Abbey, beneath a small square stone inscribed "O Rare Ben Johnson [sic]". He married sometime between 1592 and himself, a contemner
of money. His stance received attention beyond the low-level intolerance to which most followers of that faith were exposed.