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.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

-- The best 2-year-old pacing mile up to date at Ben White Raceway has been that of Mary Liner ( Mainliner-Highland Ellen ), a member of the Dick Williams stable, who was clocked 2:25.

But in either event he was the wrong man for the kind of case outlined by Ben Gurion and set forth in the indictment.

From the standpoint of the army of duffers, however, this was easily the most heartening exhibition they had had since Ben Hogan fell upon evil ways during his heyday and scored an 11 in the Texas open.

Then Rudy Bond was simply grand as Ben, the distraught Republican Party district chieftain.

Pike was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Ben and Sarah ( Andrews ) Pike, and spent his childhood in Byfield and Newburyport, Massachusetts.

With Gen. Ben McCulloch, Pike trained three Confederate regiments of Indian cavalry, most of whom belonged to the " civilized tribes ", whose loyalty to the Confederacy was variable.

It was directed by Glenn Casale with original music and lyrics by Ben Schatz.

The show was judged by Ben Folds, Shawn Stockman, and Nicole Scherzinger and was won by an all-male group from Puerto Rico called Nota.

Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than twenty-five years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by Ben Adret in 1305.

Ben Adret, while reluctant to interfere in the affairs of other congregations, was in perfect accord with Abba Mari as to the danger of the new rationalistic systems, and advised him to organize the conservative forces in defense of the Law.

( Ben Dykes, who owned the land on which the prison was built, was both depot agent and postmaster.

Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.

The first series titled The Black Adder was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton.

The service was officiated by Ben D. Johnson, who had presided at the Hollys ' wedding just months earlier.

Biblical scholar Ehud Ben Zvi reminds readers of the socio-historical context in which Hosea was composed.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

His father, Ben Selig, had come to the United States from Romania with his family when he was four years old.

* Ben was the white male borzoi, beloved of Edward J. Smith, Captain of the Titanic.

Ben Nevis was the name of a White Star Line packet ship which in 1854 carried the group of immigrants who were to become the Wends of Texas.

Ben Nevis in Svalbard is a 922 metre-high mountain south of the head of Raudfjorden, Albert I Land, which was named after the Scottish hill.