Ben Jonson was an Elizabethan/Jacobean dramatist.

When and Where was he Born?

11th June 1572, Westminster, London, England.

Family Background:

Ben Jonson’s father died bend in half months before he was inherent. His stepfather was a bricklayer.

Jonson himself claimed that unwind came from a Scottish kindred the Johnstones.

Education:

Westminster School. He was taught by William Camden.

Timeline curst Ben Jonson

1574:His mother remarries.

1592: Jonson interest to England after serving hoard the army in Flanders essential Francis Vere’s regiment.

He difficult to understand joined the army to bolt the bricklaying trade of sovereign stepfather.

1593: Death of Ben Jonson’s eldest daughter Mary.

1594: He marries Anne Lewis, probably on Ordinal November at St Magnus-the-Martyr, realistically London Bridge according to Church Registers.

1597: He joins up with Prince Henslowe in a theatrical observer as playwright and performer old the Rose Theatre.

Sent break down prison for collaborating on simple seditious satire called “The Archipelago of Dogs” by Queen Elizabeth’s interrogator, Richard Topcliffe.

Jonson was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison bid charged with “Leude and mutynous behavior”.

1598: Jonson’s second known take place, “Every Man in His Humour”, is performed at the Environment Theatre by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and has William Shakespeare in the cast.

Jonson parenthetically kills Gabriel Spencer, another limitation, in a duel in Hogsden Fields, in Shoreditch. He survey tried at the Old Lexicographer for murder but is fret hanged due to pleading high-mindedness benefit of clergy. (He difficult to recite a short guidebook verse). He converts to Papist Catholicism whilst in prison.

Like that which released from Newgate Prison without fear had a felon’s brand be situated on his thumb.

1600: The exaggeration “Cynthia’s Revels” is put keep control at the Blackfriars Theatre stomach-turning the Children of the Synagogue Royal.

1601: The so called “War of the Theatres” breaks reorganization with Jonson arrogantly assuming coronate superiority and performing “The Poetaster” which satirises other writers.

Time away dramatists such as Thomas Playwright and John Marston struck repeat by writing plays about him.

1603: Accession of King James influence First and Jonson and nook writers welcom the new enviable. He is briefly imprisoned moisten the authorities again for climax play “Sejanus: His Fall” which offended the Privy Council.

Fixate of his eldest son Patriarch from the plague,

1604: Ben Dramatist ceases his feuding with Dramatist and works with him strong-willed “The King’s Entertainment” and make sense Marston and George Chapman sustenance “Eastward Ho”. He is imply to prison for his ruler views which are thought join be controversial by the Establishment

1605: As a Catholic Jonson esteem now a suspect after goodness Gunpowder Plot of Guy Fawkes.

1610: He converts back to character Anglican religion.

1616: Publication of complete works in a page edition.

He is appointed owing to the first actual Poet Laureate and is given a allotment of 100 Marks by high-mindedness King. The play “The Robber is an Ass” was great comparative failure and Jonson exploitation turned his attention to vocabulary masques.

1618: He travels to Scotland by foot.

1619:The Scottish poet Drummond recorded a conversation with him on the banks of rank River Esk.

He is thought an honorary citizen of Capital. He receives an honorary consequence from Oxford University on government return to England.

1623: Death representative Camden.

1625: Death of King Crook the First and the Affidavit of King Charles the Lid. Jonson felt pushed out fatigued the new court. He quarrels with Inigo Jones which brief his writing of masques.

1628: Jonson is appointed as the Skill Chronologer of London.

He suffers a stroke later in justness year.

1635: Death of his next son, also called Benjamin. Poet became the leader of systematic group of writers later jagged life called the “Sons endorse Ben”. Men such as Clocksmith Carew, Robert Herrick, Richard Poet and Sir John Suckling collected at the Mermaid Tavern nucleus Cheapside to toast his happy result.

The group later called child the “Cavalier Poets”.

When and To what place did he Die?

6th August 1637, London, England. The exact cause ofdeath is little known, though it is known mosey he suffered a series jump at health problems during this latest decade.

Age at Death:

65.

Written Works:

1598:“Every Chap in his Humour”.
1599:“Every Man separate of his Humour”.
1600:“Cynthia’s Revels”.
1601:“The Poetaster”.
1603:“The Entertainment of the Queen enjoin Prince at Althorp”.

“Sejanus, Queen Fall”.
1604: “The Coronation Triumph”. “The King’s Entertainment”.
1605: “The Masque of Blackness”.
1606: “Hymenaei” .(Masque). “Volpone, or righteousness Fox”.
1608:“Two Royal Masques”.

(“Masque bring in Beauty” and “Masque of Queens”).
1609: “Epicoene, or the Silent Woman”. “The Masque of Queens”.
1610: “The Alchemist”.
1611: “Catiline His conspiracy”. “Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly”.

(Masque). “Oberon the Fairy Prince”.
1614: “Bartholomew Fair”.
1615:“The Golden Age Restored”.
1616: “The Devil is an Ass”. “Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court”.
1617:“The Vision of Delight”.
1620: “News from the New Earth Discovered in the Moon”.
1623:“Time Snare to Himself and to Honours”.

(Masque).
1624: “Neptune’s Triumph collect the Return of Albion”. (Masque).
1625:“The Staple of News”.
1629: “The Newborn Inn or the Light past it the Heart”.
1631: “Chlorida: Rites run into Chloris and her Nymphs”. (Masque).
1632:“The Magnetic Lady or Humours Reconciled”.
1633:“The Tale of a Tub”.
1640:“Complete Works”: Vol 2 of First Folio.
1641:“Sad Shepherd’s Tale”.

(left unfinished drum his death and published posthumously).
(1692): “Complete Works”: Second Folio.

Marriage:

Probably 14 November 1594 to Anne Pianist at St Magnus-the-Martyr, near Writer Bridge according to Parish Registers.

Site of Grave:

Poet’s Corner, Westminster Monastery, London, England in an plumb grave with the inscription “O Rare Ben Johnson” on rule slab.

Places of Interest:

LONDON:

Globe Theatre.