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Ben Jonson

English writer
Also known as: Benjamin Jonson
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Clifford Leech
Professor of English, University of Toronto, 1963–74. Author of The Dramatist's Experience with Other Essays in Critical Theory and others; editor of Marlowe: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Clifford Leech
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Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) was an English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605), Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614). Jonson was born two months...

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