Cobham was a common butt of veiled satire in Elizabethan popular literature ; he figures in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour and may have been part of the reason The Isle of Dogs was suppressed.

The earliest such was that in Ben Jonson's creation in Christmas his Masque dating from December 1616, in which Christmas appears " attir'd in round Hose, long Stockings, a close Doublet, a high crownd Hat with a Broach, a long thin beard, a Truncheon, little Ruffes, white shoes, his Scarffes, and Garters tyed crosse ", and announces " Why Gentlemen, doe you know what you doe?

The most famous royal visit occurred in 1624, when Ben Jonson's The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth was performed for Charles.

In Ben Jonson's Lovers Made Men ( 1617 ), " the whole masque was sung after the Italian manner, stilo recitativo ".

Mainstream scholar Irvin Matus demonstrated that Oxford sold the Bilton house in 1580, having previously rented it out, making it unlikely that Ben Jonson's 1623 poem would identify Oxford by referring to a property he once owned, but never lived in, and sold 43 years earlier.

* November 6 – November 25 – The famous, if still inaccurate, folio edition of Ben Jonson's Workes is published.

* " Drink to me only with thine eyes " comes from Ben Jonson's love poem, To Celia.

Ben Jonson's poetic lamentation On my first Sonne is also from this year.

Her thesis was on Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair.

( Larger collected editions, like those of Shakespeare's, Ben Jonson's, and Beaumont and Fletcher's plays, were a late and limited development.

Philip Henslowe's diary records payment to Ben Jonson for additions that year, but it is disputed whether the published additions reflect Jonson's work or if they were actually composed for a 1597 revival of The Spanish Tragedy mentioned by Henslowe.

Title page of Ben Jonson's tragedy ( 1611 ) from the Folio of 1692

King James I essentially created the position as it is known today for Ben Jonson in 1617, although Jonson's appointment does not seem to have been made formally.

* Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair features a puppet show of Hero and Leander in Act V, translated to London, with the Thames serving as the Hellespont between the lovers.

The festival in August has been a traditional occasion for markets and fairs, such as the Bartholomew Fair held in Smithfield, London since the Middle Ages, which served as the scene for Ben Jonson's homonymous comedy.

In a career mainly devoted to the classical theatre, Scofield starred in many Shakespeare plays and played the title role in Ben Jonson's Volpone in Peter Hall's production for the Royal National Theatre ( 1977 ).

Scott also starred in well-received productions of Larry Gelbart's Sly Fox ( 1976 ) ( based on Ben Jonson's Volpone ), which ran 495 performances, and a revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter ( 1982 ).

A 1611 date is suggested by an apparent connection with Ben Jonson's Masque of Oberon, performed at Court 1 January 1611, in which appears a dance of ten or twelve satyrs ; The Winter's Tale includes a dance of twelve satyrs, and the servant announcing their entry says " one three of them, by their own report, sir, hath danc'd before the King.

This play and Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist ( 1610 ) are typically cited as the first usage of the word in publication .< ref > See, for instance,

She joined the Old Vic company in London for the 1950 – 51 season, playing among other parts, Win-the-Fight Littlewit in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, Ann Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Princess Katharine in Henry V.

At Malvern in 1932, he played Face in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.

Richardson's third Stratford role in the season, Volpone in Ben Jonson's play, received much better, but not ecstatic, notices.

While in Dublin, Garrick added two new roles to his repertoire: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist ( a role that garnered him much acclaim ) and Captain Plume in Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer.

" It has been noted that the original inscription on Ben Jonson's tablet, which was already removed by the time Davenant died, was " Rare Ben ," which was the name Shakespeare supposedly had for Jonson.

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.

One example is the contrast between birth and death, and birth and berth, and told and toll'd in Thomas Hood's account of the death of Ben the sailor ( which took place at the age of 40, contrasted with his age of zero at birth ) in his humorous poem Faithless Sally Brown:

This legend was depicted in the 1903 poem Legend of Cabool written by Tug Wilson and Ben Durnell.

In 1616, Ben Jonson wrote To Penshurst, a poem in which he addresses the estate owned by the Sidney family and tells of its beauty.

In a conversation with poet, novelist, and critic Ben Lerner for BOMB Magazine, Armantrout said that she is more likely to write a prose poem " when hear the voice of a conventional narrator in head.

Perhaps no poem of this class has been more universally admired than the pastoral Epithalamion of Edmund Spenser ( 1595 ), though he also has important rivals – Ben Jonson, Donne and Francis Quarles.

Berry's first published poetry book consisted of a single poem, the elegiac November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three ( 1964 ), initiated and illustrated by Ben Shahn, commemorating the death of John F. Kennedy.

The dream of the poem: Hebrew poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492, Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 23-27 (" Dunash Ben Labrat " and " The wife of Dunash ").

* The house and its owners were paid a tribute in Ben Jonson's seventeenth century poem To Penshurst.

In Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jonson lampoons the poem in the fair's puppet show ; his Hellespont is the Thames, and his Leander is a dyer's son in Puddle-wharf.

After more memories of America and Venice, the canto ends in a passage that brings together Dante's celestial rose, the rose formed by the effect of a magnet on iron filings, an image from Paul Verlaine of a fountain playing in the moonlight, and a reference to a poem by Ben Jonson in a composite image of hope for " those who have passed over Lethe ".

On the latter's death in that year Ben Brierley wrote a commemorative poem wondering where the " Missing Link " between chimpanzees and men was.

It was a center of literary and cultural activity and its gracious hospitality is praised in Ben Jonson's famous poem To Penshurst.

Ben reads Evie a last poem expressing his gratitude for her friendship, promises to visit whenever he's home from college and heads off.

Curiously, he also quietly leans upon a poem about New York called " The City " by Ben Maddow, from whom Algren lifted powerful images of urban life.

The character Jonathan Ben Isaac and his visit by a spirit call to mind the similar situation and name in the poem Abu Ben Adhem by Victorian poet, James Henry Lee Hunt.

Ben Ledi is particularly well known through Walter Scott's poem Lady of the Lake.