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    Ben Jonson was an English poet, essayist, and playwright born in 1572 in London. He came from humble beginnings, as his father died before his birth and his mother remarried a bricklayer. Jonson was educated at Westminster School and worked briefly as a bricklayer and soldier before becoming an actor and playwright. In 1594 he married Anne Lewis and began working full-time as a playwright, producing his first great play Every Man in His Humor in 1598. Jonson killed a man in a duel in 1598 and was imprisoned but later released. He died in 1637 and was buried at Westminster Abbey, regarded as one of the major dramatists of the 17th century.

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    Ben Jonson was an English poet, essayist, and playwright born in 1572 in London. He came from humble beginnings, as his father died before his birth and his mother remarried a bricklayer. Jonson was educated at Westminster School and worked briefly as a bricklayer and soldier before becoming an actor and playwright. In 1594 he married Anne Lewis and began working full-time as a playwright, producing his first great play Every Man in His Humor in 1598. Jonson killed a man in a duel in 1598 and was imprisoned but later released. He died in 1637 and was buried at Westminster Abbey, regarded as one of the major dramatists of the 17th century.

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    Ben Jonson was an English poet, essayist, and playwright born in 1572 in London. He came from humble beginnings, as his father died before his birth and his mother remarried a bricklayer. Jonson was educated at Westminster School and worked briefly as a bricklayer and soldier before becoming an actor and playwright. In 1594 he married Anne Lewis and began working full-time as a playwright, producing his first great play Every Man in His Humor in 1598. Jonson killed a man in a duel in 1598 and was imprisoned but later released. He died in 1637 and was buried at Westminster Abbey, regarded as one of the major dramatists of the 17th century.

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    Ben Jonson

    1572–1637
    The poet, essayist, and playwright Ben Jonson was born on June 11, 1572 in
    London, England. His father, a minister, died shortly before his birth and his
    mother remarried a bricklayer.

    Jonson was raised in Westminster and attended St. Martin's parish school and
    Westminster School, where he came under the influence of the classical scholar
    William Camden. He left the Westminster school in 1589, worked briefly in his
    stepfather's trade as a bricklayer, then served in the military at Flanders, before
    working as an actor and playwright for Philip Henslowe's theater company.

    In 1594, Jonson married Anne Lewis and began to work as an actor and
    playwright. Jonson and Lewis had at least two children, but little else is known of
    their marriage.

    In 1598, Jonson wrote what is considered his first great play, Every Man in His
    Humor. In a 1616 production, William Shakespeare acted in one of the lead roles.
    Shortly after the play opened, Jonson killed Gabriel Spencer in a duel and was tried
    for murder. He was released by pleading "benefit of clergy" (i.e., by proving he
    could read and write in Latin, he was allowed to face a more lenient court). He
    spent only a few weeks in prison, but shortly after his release he was again arrested
    for failing to pay an actor.

    Ben Jonson died in Westminster on August 8, 1637. A tremendous crowd of


    mourners attended his burial at Westminster Abbey. He is regarded as one of the
    major dramatists and poets of the seventeenth century.

    The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in


    1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most
    characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge considered it had one of the three
    most perfect plots in literature. The play's clever fulfilment of the classical
    unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance
    plays (except the works of Shakespeare) with a continuing life on stage (except for
    a period of neglect during the Victorian era).
    Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson
    first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.
    A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and
    it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies.

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