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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.
Shakespeare was not part of the production, though he had played in Every Man in His Humour the year before. Every Man Out of His Humour includes several references to Shakespeare and his contemporaneous works: a mention of Justice Silence from Henry IV, Part 2 —"this is a kinsman to Justice Silence" (V,ii) and two allusions to Julius Caesar ...
Jonson utilised a variety of sources to write Epicœne. While most details of characterisation and plot are his own invention, the scenario originates from two orations by Libanius : in one, a groom in Morose's situation argues for permission to commit suicide to escape his marriage, while in the other an elderly miser plans to disinherit a ...
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 ...
Why here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, I and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit." From the handwritten manuscript of The Return from Parnassus; Or the Scourge of Simony.
The main speaker is a satyr, yielding the alternative title, in dialogue with Queen Mab, and the cast includes fairies and elves – a blending of figures from both classical and native English folklore that Jonson would employ in future works, including The Fortunate Isles and Their Union of 1625.
] Henslowe paid Jonson several pounds for his additions, which has seemed an excessive sum for 320 lines. And John Marston appears to parody the painter scene in his 1599 play Antonio and Mellida, indicating that the scene must have been in existence and known to audiences by that time. The five additions in the 1602 text may have been made for ...