Ben Jonson

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Standard Name: Jonson, Ben

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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...
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.
Textual Production Cicely Bulstrode
Bulstrode had by now been dead several years. Competing versions of the text were issued this year. The main work in this volume, the poem about the choice of a wife, was clearly extremely popular...
Literary responses Cicely Bulstrode
During CB 's lifetime Ben Jonson attacked her by calling her both a fool and a whore. After her death, both he and John Donne eulogized her morals and also her wit.
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...
Literary responses Lady Jane Cavendish
Starr pronounced in 1931: As a literary production, The Concealed Fansyes is practically without value.He noted its general and specific indebtedness to Ben Jonson , asserted a likeness between its pair of brothers and...
Intertextuality and Influence Ellen Mary Clerke
The text opens with several Ballads of the Sea,
Clerke, Ellen Mary. The Flying Dutchman, and Other Poems. W. Satchell.
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which include the title poem and the patriotic Eastward Ho! During the Russo-Turkish War. The latter's allusion to Kingsley 's Westward Ho! (apart...
Occupation Lady Anne Clifford
LAC performed (with Lady Mary Wroth ) in Ben Jonson 's Masque of Beauty.
Katherine Acheson , editor of LAC 's early diaries, dates this performance 1609.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Ben Jonson
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text U. A. Fanthorpe
The title poem is Queueing for the Sun in Walbrook. Some of her subjects here are literary: a poem about Boethius , another about Ben Jonson 's visit to Drummond of Hawthornden , a...
Textual Production Sarah Green
It is in three volumes, with a title-page quotation from Ben Jonson .
Textual Features Elizabeth Inchbald
EI did not choose the plays herself. Shakespeare fills the first five volumes, apart from one piece by Ben Jonson , and five of her own plays fill volume 20. The eighteenth century is better...
Textual Production Aemilia Lanyer
After Salve DeusAL placed The Description of Cooke-ham, which modern literary history identifies as the first country-house poem (a title which used to be given to Ben Jonson 's To Penshurst). Last...
Performance of text Charlotte Lennox
CL 's comedy Old City Manners (an adaptation from Eastward Hoe! by Ben Jonson and others) opened at Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
4: 1928
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...

Timeline

September 1598: Ben Jonson's earliest well-known comedy,...

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September 1598

Ben Jonson 's earliest well-known comedy, Every Man in His Humour, was first performed, with a cast that included Richard Burbage and William Shakespeare .

1609-10: Ben Jonson's comedy Epicœne, or The Silent...

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1609-10

Ben Jonson 's comedyEpicœne, or The Silent Woman was first performed.

1 November 1614: Ben Jonson's comedy Bartholomew Fair was...

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1 November 1614

Ben Jonson 's comedyBartholomew Fair was performed before James I , to whom it was dedicated, by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants .

November 1616: Ben Jonson published his Works, including...

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November 1616

Ben Jonson published his Works, including (unconventionally) nine plays, as well as masques and two poetry collections.

August 1667: John Dryden published An Essay of Dramatick...

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August 1667

John Dryden published An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, bearing the title-page date of 1668.

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