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under Ben Jonson
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. 20 |
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. 1 |
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... |
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. |
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