Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson was born in London in 1572, after the death of his father, and was brought up by a bricklayer whom his mother had married; a soldier in Flanders, he was tried for killing an actor in a duel and saved by benefit of clergy, and imprisoned twice for plays that had offended the authorities. He wrote masques for the court of James I, collected his plays in his lifetime in a single folio volume, which no dramatist had done, and died in London in 1637, aged sixty-five.

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• TheatreVolponeBen Jonson · 1606LiteraturePublic domain