Biography of ben johnson summary of oliver
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Ben Jonson
Portrait of Ben Jonson. Isacc Oliver (attrib.)
By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Jonson, like Shakespeare, came from modest beginnings--his father was a bricklayer--but he was a man of great learning, widely read in both the Greek and Latin classical authors. Often contentious, even irascible, he was nonetheless generous in his estimation of Shakespeare's work.
Jonson must have known Shakespeare well. His first major success on the stage, Every Man in His Humour, was first acted in 1598; when the play was published in 1616 (the year of Shakespeare's death), the title- page included a list of "The principal Comoedians," and heading the list is "Will Shakespeare." (There is a tradition that Shakespeare acted the part of an old man, the elder Knowell.)
Jonson's plays
His great plays are his satirical comedies, especially Volpone (1606), Epicoene (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614); he wrote some fine poetry; and he was among the first to treat English writers seriously enough to write criticism of them.
Jonson's love of the classics led him to break with established conventions in the drama of his time. Sidney would have approved of the way that he carefully adhered
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London School of Journalism
English Literature Essays
Ben jonson Unmasked
Abstract: Jonson's presence in his own work can be interpreted as his way of expressing his dissatisfaction with theatre as a medium, and also as a means of imposing a measure of authorial control. His presence in his plays was not static: over the course of his career one can observe an increasingly subtle and less easily distinguishable presence. In this shift, we can see a concurrent change in the author's attitudes about his role as a playwright / poet, theatre and its audience, poetry, and his contemporaries. It is a gradual and subtle move from hubris and idealism toward at least the beginnings of a humility more consistent with his own time, and a grudging acceptance of the limits of the medium in which he worked, and his place within the wider context of the English Renaissance theatre.
The demands that Ben Jonson makes upon his audiences, as much as they were resisted in his own time, are often seen as a major strength by modern critics, a characteristic setting him apart from his contemporaries. T. S. Eliot writes, "Jonson behaved as the great creative mind that he was: he created his own world, a world from which his followers, as well as the dramatists who were trying to do some