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Ben Jonson Playwright

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: Jun 11, 1572
  • Died: Aug 6, 1637

Ben Jonson was an English playwright, poet, and literary critic of the seventeenth century, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour, Volpone, or The Foxe, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy, and for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.

Jonson was a classically educated, well-read, and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era and of the Caroline era.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. fear

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. happiness

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. strength

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. success

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