Ben Jonson

focused on Ben Jonson, his love & hate relationship with Shakespeare, his lyric poetry, Jonson’s purpose, Jonson’s life, and “Volpone”. Jonson was constantly compared to Shakespeare which is often deemed as unfair. Sadly. Jonson was always second best even though they were two different people with different writing styles, temperament, artistic interests, etc.. However, this could be due to working around each other and always being in the same surroundings. There were times when Jonson would hint

ancient Greece and Rome was eagerly welcomed. Sir Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives, which was first published in 1579, provided the framework, and sometimes, even the wording, of the Roman plays of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson and Massinger. These plays and their leading figures undoubtedly made a special appeal to the Elizabethan playgoer, who perhaps drew a parallel between the history of those days and the stirring times in which he himself was living. We may, indeed

Throughout the seventeenth century, poets mourned the loss of a child publicly by writing elegies, or poems to lament the deceased. Katherine Philips and Ben Jonson were two poets who implemented the elegiac form in “Orinda Upon Little Hector Philips”, “On My First Son”, and “On My First Daughter” respectively. Although Philips and Jonson’s elegies contain obvious similarities regarding the nature of the works, the differences between the approaches taken to mourn their children are quite contrasting

elaborate palace in which the Royal Family lives. However, during the Renaissance, this city also gave birth to one of history’s few literary innovators: Benjamin Jonson. Through Jonson’s influential works in drama, poetry, and literature, Ben Jonson became one of the most influential authors of the early 17th century. Benjamin Jonson, who is most known for the popularization of the comedy of humors was born in Westminster, England on June 11, 1572. He comes from a line of Anglo-Scottish border

The poems “Delight in Disorder” by Robert Herrick and “Still to be Neat” by Ben Johnson display similar themes. Both poems are written about natural beauty, “Delight in Disorder”, focuses more on the careless beauty while “Still to be Neat” focuses on the simplicity of natural beauty. Although these two poems are extremely similar because of their themes they are also different. Both authors aim to unveil the true meaning of beauty through being natural and having a balance between disorder and order

The study will encompass the compare and contrast of two great writers’ literary works. It will take comprehensive discussion on “Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist” and “William Shakespeare’s The Tempest”. Jonson and Shakespeare were contemporaries with more immediately recognizable common ground between them than difference. They shared the same profession and brought forth their works from the matrix of common intellectual property. They appealed to the same audience and both gained popularity and esteem

prove” by Ben Jonson shows more eloquence and wordplay than the more recent poem “Wild Nights-Wild Nights” by Emily Dickinson. This is partly because of the way that people spoke at that point in time, and partly to disguise the meaning with subtlety. The more recent poem shows less eloquence, but it does have a double meaning. They are both, however, deceptive on the surface with underlying sexual messages in their context. A comparison of “Come, My Celia, Let us prove” by Ben Jonson and “Wild Nights-Wild

The Alchemist is one of Ben Jonson's four extraordinary comedies. The most earliest recorded execution of the play happened in Oxford in 1610 by the King's Men. In The Alchemist, Jonson unashamedly ridicules the imprudences, vanities and indecencies of humanity, most quite eagerness prompted credulity. Individuals of every single social class are liable to Jonson's heartless, sarcastic wit. In "The Alchemist" the master of the house, Lovewit goes to countryside to avoid th palgue. With his lord

Renaissance was used by cavalier and metaphysical poets in order to portray their message, communicate easily to the readers, and reveal their personal lives and opinions through word choice and figurative language. Imagery was used by poets like Ben Jonson, George Herbert, and John Milton in order to convey complex messages through the comparison of spirituality and the physical world in a way that everyday people could relate to and understand. The cavalier poets came from the subservient class of

It has taught us how people have reacted and interpreted certain situations, such as death. Ben Jonson’s ‘On my First Sonne’ has taught us the devastation the death of a loved one can bring and John Donne’s “Death be not proud” has shown that we need not be afraid of death, but to embrace life. I believe John Donne has conveyed this message the