Ben Jonson

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Standard Name: Jonson, Ben

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Lady Mary Wroth
LMW performed in The Masque of Blacknesse, which Ben Jonson had written to accommodate the queen 's desire for herself and her ladies to represent black women.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Writing Women in Jacobean England. Harvard University Press.
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Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
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Friends, Associates Lady Mary Wroth
LMW appeared in Jonson 's Masque of Beauty, with the same twelve companions as in his Masque of Blacknesse.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Writing Women in Jacobean England. Harvard University Press.
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Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
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Friends, Associates Lady Mary Wroth
Jonson dedicated to LMWThe Alchemist (which had been first performed in 1610), calling her The Grace, and Glory of women.
Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Jonson
Family and Intimate relationships Cicely Bulstrode
Despite the eminent respectability of these friends, the unmarried CB acquired a reputation for promiscuity. Poems by Sir John Roe and Ben Jonson , and a letter from John Donne , make casual charges connecting...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Jane Cavendish
As a young man William Cavendish developed an interest in literature (through Ben Jonson ) and the visual and performance arts. At Bolsover Castle he created a Renaissance version of a medieval castle, full of...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Jane Cavendish
The earl spent something over £4,000 on this visit, which was reported as such an excess of feasting, as had never before been known in England. The aged Ben Jonson wrote for it The King's...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney's father, Sir Henry Sidney , was Lord President of the Council of the Marches of Wales when she was born.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, http://U of A HSS.
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He later became Lord Deputy of Ireland. The Sidneys (the family whom...
death Cicely Bulstrode
She was buried two days later, on 6 August 1609. At least two of her former detractors, Jonson and Donne , wrote verse commemorations after her death.
death Edmund Spenser
ES , poet, died in King Street, Westminster, London. Ben Jonson 's claim that he starved to death has not generally been believed.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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