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Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best | Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of [[William Shakespeare]], he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets. | ||
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Revision as of 02:38, 30 November 2019
Life
Born: c. 11 June 1572
Died: 6 August 1637
Biography
Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.
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Settings of text by Ben Jonson
- Drink to me only (Henry Elliot Button)
- Drink to me only (Thomas Crampton)
- Drink to me only (Traditional)
- Drink to me only with thine eyes (Elizabeth Turner)
- From Oberon, in Fairy land (Richard John Samuel Stevens)
- Hymn to Cynthia (Berthold Tours)
- Hymn to Cynthia (Henry Thomas Smart)
- Hymn to Diana (Arnold Duncan Culley)
- Hymn to Diana (Frederick A. Challinor)
- Hymn to Diana (Mark Chapman)
- Hymn to the moon (Josiah Booth)
- I sing the birth (Arthur Sullivan)
- I sing the birth (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
- I sing the birth (Claude Goudimel)
- I sing the birth (Clifford Boyd)
- I sing the birth (Edward Elgar)
- I sing the birth (James Gibb)
- Queen and Huntress (Jeffrey Quick)
- Queen and huntress (William Wooding Starmer)
- Robin Goodfellow (George Alexander Macfarren)
- See the chariot at hand (William Horsley)
- Slow fresh fount (William Horsley)
- Slow, slow, fresh fount (Jon Corelis)
- Slow, slow, fresh fount (Thomas Attwood Walmisley)
- To Diana (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
- Underneath this stone doth lie (William Benson Earle)
Publications
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