Ben Jonson

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Standard Name: Jonson, Ben

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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
Occupation Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...
Textual Production Alice Sutcliffe
Only a handful of copies of this survive (four were known in 1996).
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Cullen, Patrick, and Alice Sutcliffe. “Introductory Note”. Alice Sutcliffe, Scolar Press, p. ix - xiii.
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It was included by Germaine Greer , Jeslyn Medoff , and others in Kissing the Rod, 1988, and selected by...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan , her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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early poems of her near-contemporary Adrienne Rich . She wrote two stage works that were performed...
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/.
Textual Features Hannah Mary Rathbone
Lady Willoughby , the supposed author of the diary, was an actual person (born into the well-known Cecil family), who died in the year 1661.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
The work gives evidence of painstaking research into the two...
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...
Occupation Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson , Nicholas Breton , and Samuel Daniel . Daniel later told her elder son that...
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.
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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...
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 Sarah Green
It is in three volumes, with a title-page quotation from Ben Jonson .
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...

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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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