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| Ben Jonson |
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| 1572–1637, English dramatist and poet, b. Westminster, London. The high-spirited buoyancy of Jonson’s plays and the brilliance of his language have earned him a reputation as one of the great playwrights in English literature. After a brief term at bricklaying, his stepfather’s trade, and after military service in Flanders, he began working for Philip Henslowe as an actor and playwright. In 1598 he was tried for killing another actor in a duel but escaped execution by claiming right of clergy (that he could read and write).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  j n´s nfrom The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- The Alchemist
Harvard Classics, Vol. XLVII, Part 2.
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- Bartlett’s Jonson Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Jonson, Ben, 31520 to 31581
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT JONSON
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- “Ben Jonson”
Chapter by Ashley H. Thorndike with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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