Thursday, 27 September 2018

Ben Jonson


Ben Jonson  (Benjamin Jonson) 
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                           Ben Joson (11 June 1572- 16 August 1637) was an english playwright, poet,actor,and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. Playwright Ben Jonson was a major force in Elizabethan and Jacobean theater, second only to William Shakespeare himsef. He popularised the Comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical play Every man in His Humour (1598), He set himself squarely against his contemporaries and the romentic tendency of the age. 

His works :
Comedies : Every man in his Humor (1598), Volpone (1605), The Alchemist (1610), The Silent Woman (1609)

Tragedies : Sejanus (1603), Catiline (1611)

Short Eassy : Timber or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter.

Poems and songs : The Triumph of Charis , Drink to me only with thine Eyes, and To the Memory of my Beloved Mother .   

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