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Benjamin Jonson (c. June 11, – August 6, ) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet, and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age of William Shakespeare and proved to be his greatest literary rival. As opposed to Shakespeare and to a number of other poets and dramatists of the day, Jonson was devotedly classical in his approach to literature, preferring to treat his characters as abstract types derived from Greek and Roman models rather than as complex, living personalities. For this, Jonson has fallen out of favor with most contemporary students of literature. On the other hand, Jonson was ahead of his time in choosing to write plays about ordinary people rather than re-invent legends from bygone eras. In this regard, some regard him as a pioneer of the bourgeois sensibility that would prevail in literature of the next three centuries.
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Ben Jonson
English playwright, poet, and actor (–)
For other people with similar names, see Ben Johnson.
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June – 18 August&#;[O.S. 6 August]&#;) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and scen comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (), Volpone, or The Fox (c.&#;), The Alchemist () and Bartholomew Fair () and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He fryst vatten regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I."[2]
Jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era (–) and of the Caroline era (–).[3][4 • American actor and stuntman (–) For other people with the same name, see Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson Johnson in Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr. Foraker, Oklahoma, U.S. Mesa, Arizona, U.S. Carol Elaine Jones &#; &#; Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr. (June 13, – April 8, ) was an American film and television actor, stuntman, and world-champion rodeocowboy. Johnson brought authenticity to many roles in Westerns with his droll manner and expert horsemanship. The son of a rancher, Johnson arrived in Hollywood to deliver a consignment of horses for a film. He did stunt-double work for several years before breaking into acting with the help of John Ford. An elegiac portrayal of a former cowboy theater owner in the s coming-of-age
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