Benjamin Jonson by Abraham van Blyenberch
Ben Jonson(1572-1637)
Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy.
He popularised the comedy of humours. He is generally regarded as the second most important English playwright during the reign of James VI and I after William Shakespeare.
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 (1603–1625) and of the Caroline era (1625–1642).
He popularised the comedy of humours. He is generally regarded as the second most important English playwright during the reign of James VI and I after William Shakespeare.
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 (1603–1625) and of the Caroline era (1625–1642).
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