Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

The verbal wit and gender fluidity of his comedies owe much to John Lyly’s courtly style, and traces of some of Ben Jonson’s ...

Shakespeare's friendly rival Ben Jonson had previously published his own writings, poems included, in a folio. The 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare, however, is the earliest folio consisting only of an ...

Seven years after Shakespeare's death ... book's preface was written by another of the leading Elizabethan dramatists, Ben Jonson, who paid him a fulsome tribute: "Soul of the age!

Although Jackson does not name the plays directly, we know from his accounts of them that he was referring to Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610) and Shakespeare’s Othello (1603-4). While ...

Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey. Jonson always seemed to be poor, in spite of gifts from royalty, and he died in great poverty in ...

"In Bluestone’s poetry, the plays of Ben Jonson and the escapades of Harpo Marx go on forever ... In “The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity,” Shakespeare’s Lear, the biblical Isaac, and comedian Oliver ...