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Ben Jonson, eigentlich Benjamin Jonson, war ein englischer Bühnenautor und Dichter. Neben William Shakespeare gilt Ben Jonson als der bedeutendste englische Dramatiker der Renaissance.
After having been an apprentice bricklayer, Jonson went to the Netherlands and volunteered to soldier with the English regiments of Sir Francis Vere (1560–1609) in Flanders. England was allied with the Dutch in their fight for independence as well as the ongoing war with Spain .
11. Apr. 2024 · Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) was an English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.
Ben Jonson is among the best-known writers and theorists of English Renaissance literature, second in reputation only to Shakespeare. A prolific dramatist and a man of letters highly learned in the classics, he profoundly influenced the Augustan age through his emphasis on the precepts of Horace,…
Ben Jonson, eigentlich Benjamin Jonson, war ein englischer Bühnenautor und Dichter. Neben William Shakespeare gilt Ben Jonson als der bedeutendste englische Dramatiker der Renaissance.
His plays and achievement. Ben Jonson occupies by common consent the second place among English dramatists of the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. He was a man of contraries. For “twelve years a papist,” he was also—in fact though not in title—Protestant England’s first poet laureate.
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.
