Catullus ' love poem " Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus " in the translation by Ben Jonson was set to music ( lute accompanied song ) by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger.

When was a " base sycophant " loved and honoured by piety such as that of Herbert, Tennison, and Rawley, by noble spirits like Hobbes, Ben Jonson, and Selden, or followed to the grave, and beyond it, with devoted affection such as that of Sir Thomas Meautys.

* 1605 – The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

However, other scholars have found Grillo's arguments unpersuasive, arguing that Shakespeare could have derived much of this material from John Florio, an Italian scholar living in England who was later thanked by Ben Jonson for helping him get Italian details right for his play Volpone.

They also note that in 1756, in Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Ben Jonson, William Rufus Chetwood concludes on the basis of performance records " at the end of the year of, or the beginning of the next, ' tis supposed that took his farewell of the stage, both as author and actor .".

He also claims that the alleged encryptions settle the question of the identity of " the Fair Youth " as Henry Wriothesley and contain striking references to the sonnets themselves and de Vere's relationship to Sir Philip Sidney and Ben Jonson.

Such a bed trick has been a dramatic convention since antiquity and was used more than 40 times by every major playwright in the Early Modern theatre era except for Ben Jonson.

Notable practitioners of elegiac poetry have included Propertius, Jorge Manrique, Jan Kochanowski, Chidiock Tichborne, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Thomas Gray, Charlotte Turner Smith, William Cullen Bryant, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Evgeny Baratynsky, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Louis Gallet, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Virginia Woolf.

The word " palindrome " was coined from the Greek roots (; " again ") and (; " way, direction ") by the English writer Ben Jonson in the 17th century.

In As You Like It, the exiled duke and his men " live like the old Robin Hood of England ", while Ben Jonson produced the ( incomplete ) masque The Sad Shepherd, or a Tale of Robin Hood as a satire on Puritanism.

* 1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.

Thus, John Dryden, among many others, compares the " irregular " Shakespeare with the " regular " Ben Jonson in his Essay of Dramatick Poesie ( 1668 ), and makes use of the unity of time in this passage criticizing Shakespeare's history plays:

* June 11 – Ben Jonson, English dramatist ( d. 1637 )

* July – The Isle of Dogs ( a play now lost ) is written by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson, and performed at the Swan Theatre.

* Ben Jonson writes The Poetaster.

* January 1 – James I of England, theatre-going and literary king with absolutist aspirations, attends the masque The Golden Age Restored, a satire by Ben Jonson on fallen court favorite Somerset.

** " Father Christmas " is a main character of the Christmas masque written by Ben Jonson and presented at the court of King James I of England.

( Ben Jonson received a royal pension of 100 marks in 1616, causing some historians to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate, even though John Fletcher was more popular ).

* August 6 – Ben Jonson, English writer ( b. 1572 )

The term playwright appears to have been coined by Ben Jonson in his Epigram 49, To Playwright, as an insult, to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre.

Although William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were actors, the majority do not seem to have been performers, and no major author who came on to the scene after 1600 is known to have supplemented his income by acting.

Christopher Marlowe was killed in an apparent tavern brawl, while Ben Jonson killed an actor in a duel.

Ben Jonson achieved success as a purveyor of Court masques, and was talented at playing the patronage game that was an important part of the social and economic life of the era.

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The other was the extreme elaboration of the courtly masque being conducted at the same time by Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones.

* Cynthia ’ s Revels, play by Ben Jonson ( 1572 – 1637 )

Isaac ( ben Solomon ) Luria Ashkenazi ( 1534 – July 25, 1572 ) ( Hebrew: י ִ צ ְ ח ָ ק בן שלמה לו ּ ר ְ י ָ א אשכנזי Yitzhak Ben Sh ' lomo Lurya Ashkenazi ), commonly known as " Ha ' ARI " ( meaning " The Lion "), " Ha ' ARI Hakadosh " holy ARI or " ARIZaL " ARI, Zikhrono Livrakha was a foremost rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Palestine.

#" Hymn ", Hymn to Diana by Ben Jonson ( 1572 – 1637 )

* 1912 – Ben Hogan, American golfer ( d. 1997 )

* 1993 – Ben Breedlove, American blogger ( d. 2011 )

* 1951 – Mordechai Ben David, American singer

* 1970 – Ben Silverman, American television producer, founded Electus Studios

* 1972 – Ben Affleck, American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer

* 1899 – Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer ( d. 1963 )

* 1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U. S .- funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.

* 1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor ( d. 2012 )

* 1941 – Ben L. Jones, American actor, politician, and writer

* 1938 – Ben Barnes, American politician

* 1976 – Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, and ¡ All-Time Quarterback!

* 1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer

* 1981 – Ben Scott, English cricketer

* 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14. 5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13. 76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

* The General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists – original publications of Ben and Lois Roden, Victor T. Houteff, and new studies by Doug Mitchell

* The Remarkables, New Zealand – mountain range containing a peak also called Ben Nevis.

* Navigation on Ben Nevis Advice for people walking up Ben Nevis – available as leaflet in the town.

* Ben Nevis – the long way round.

Aside from Who Dey, the team also has the Cincinnati Ben – Gals, the team's cheerleading squad, which is known for having Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in league history.

* 1947 – Ben Cross, English actor

* 1944 – Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer

* 1989 – Ben Schumann, Australian actor

* 1962 – Ben Browder, American actor

* 1936 – Ben Pon, Jr., Dutch vintner and athlete