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Ben Jonson: His Craft and Art (Routledge, London 2017) Rosalind Miles. Ben Jonson: His Life and Work (Routledge, London 1986) George Parfitt. Ben Jonson: Public Poet and Private Man (J. M. Dent, 1976) Richard S. Peterson. Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson (Routledge, 2011) David Riggs. Ben Jonson: A Life (1989) Stanley Wells.
On 22 September 1598, Spenser fought a duel with Ben Jonson on Hoxton fields. The cause of the duel is not known. According to Jonson's account, related many years later, Spenser had initiated the duel and had the advantage of a much longer sword. Spenser wounded Jonson in the arm, but Jonson managed to strike back, killing him.
David Garrick as Abel Drugger in Jonson's The Alchemist by Johann Zoffany (c. 1770). 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 believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature.
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression, and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest prose writers in the English language.
Finally, the comic duel between La Foole and Daw is usually seen as an echo of the mock-duel between Viola and Aguecheek in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Some more local details are also borrowed from the classical misogynistic tradition. Truewit's speeches condemning marriage borrow from Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Juvenal's Satire VI.
James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom – 1845; John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor – 1846 [41] Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento – 1852 [42] Frédéric Constant Cournet, French revolutionary.
Shaa and Spenser were released quickly, and even Jonson was out of jail by early in October. Pembroke's Men were in action again, as were the other companies, before winter of that year. The only party permanently hurt was the Swan's impresario Francis Langley, who alone among the play's producers was not able to obtain relicensing. Langley had ...
The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After. London and New York, Routledge, 1992. Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith, eds. The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1977. Loxley, James. The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson.