Ben Jonson

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

Mary Sidney's father, Sir Henry Sidney , was Lord President of the Council of the Marches of Wales when she was born. He later became Lord Deputy of Ireland. The Sidneys (the family whom...

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...