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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.
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.
Playwrights dealt with the natural limitation on their productivity by combining into teams of two, three, four, and even five to generate play texts ; the majority of plays written in this era were collaborations, and the solo artists who generally eschewed collaborative efforts, like Jonson and Shakespeare, were the exceptions to the rule.
( Brewster, Chiswell, and Herringman were members of the six-man syndicate that published the third Ben Jonson folio in 1692 ; Herringman was one of three stationers who issued the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio in 1679.
Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period.
His circle of friends and acquaintances included Lord Burghley, Fulke Greville, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Stow, John Dee, Jacques de Thou and Ben Jonson, who was Camden's student at Westminster and who dedicated an early edition of Every Man in His Humour to him.
* Sejanus: His Fall ( 1603 ), a play by Ben Jonson, in the original production of which he might have been played by Shakespeare, who is listed in the 1614 edition ( as Will.
Unlike the Fletchers and Habington, who looked back to “ Spenser ’ s art and Sydney's wit ,” they come under the influence both of the newer literary fashions of Jonson and Fres, and of the revived spirit of cultured devotion in the Anglican church.
He was the friend of John Hales and Chillingworth, was celebrated by Ben Jonson, John Suckling, Abraham Cowley and Edmund Waller in verse, and in prose by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, who calls him the " incomparable " Falkland, and draws a delightful picture of his society and hospitality.
Ben Jonson, who he co-wrote the play with Thomas Nashe, is arrested on the orders of Queen Elizabeth I of England's so-called interrogator, Richard Topcliffe.
Notable figures who owned copies include Ben Jonson whose copy is held at the Houghton Library, Harvard ; Thomas Jefferson owned at least five Latin editions and English, Italian and French translations.
He was intimate with Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Nabbes and especially with John Hales and Sir William Davenant, who later furnished John Aubrey with information about his friend.
Harvey dreaded lest Lyly should make a play upon their quarrel ; Francis Meres, as is well known, places him among " the best for comedy ;" and Ben Jonson names him among those foremost rivals who were " outshone " and outsung by Shakespeare.
It is bright and amusing, in the style common to the " sons " of Ben Jonson, the university wits who wrote more for the closet than the public stage.
Cartwright was a successor to Ben Jonson and is often counted among the Sons of Ben, the group of dramatists who practiced Jonson's style of comedy.
Jonson criticised Marston for being a false poet, a vain, careless writer who plagiarised the works of others and whose own works were marked by bizarre diction and ugly neologisms.
A Jacobean inscription in the 1616 Jonson folio lists him playing the role of Corbaccio in Volpone ; since the same list includes Nathan Field, who did not join the King's Men until 1616, it seems that Heminges continued to act, at least intermittently, into his fifties.
During the 1590s he was patron of Pembroke's Men, a theatre company who were the first group to perform a number of plays including Henry VI, part 1 by William Shakespeare and The Isle of Dogs by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson.
Mattias Jonson ( born 16 January 1974 ) is a Swedish former professional football player, who played as a midfielder for Swedish club Djurgårdens IF in the Allsvenskan championship.
Ben Jonson remarked to Drummond of Hawthornden that “ so he had written that piece of, ' The Burning Babe ,' he would have been content to destroy many of his .” In fact, there is a strong case to be made for Southwell's influence on his contemporaries and successors, among them Drayton, Lodge, Nashe, Herbert, Crashaw, and especially Shakespeare, who seems to have known his work, both poetry and prose, extremely well.
In 1619, William Drummond of Hawthornden recalled Ben Jonson explaining how he got into trouble " for writing something against the Scots in a play, Eastward Ho, and voluntary imprisoned himself with Chapman and Marston who had written it amongst them.
King wrote many elegies on royal persons and on his private friends, who included John Donne and Ben Jonson.
Shackerley Marmion ( January 1603 – 1639 ), also Shakerley, Shakerly, Schackerley, Marmyon, Marmyun, or Mermion, was an early 17th-century dramatist, often classed among the Sons of Ben, the followers of Ben Jonson who continued his style of comedy.

Jonson and Drummond
He corresponded familiarly with Drummond ; Ben Jonson, William Browne, George Wither and others were among his friends.
* April-Ben Jonson visits Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden ; in the same year Jonson becomes Poet Laureate.
Jonson's ' Conversations With Drummond ' refers to the imprisonment, and suggests there was a possibility that both authors would have their ' ears and noses slit ' as a punishment, but this may have been Jonson elaborating on the story in retrospect.
In the winter of 1618-1619, Drummond had included Ben Jonson in his circle of literary friends, and at Christmas 1618 was honoured with a visit of a fortnight or more from the dramatist.
" But the publication of what was obviously intended merely for a private journal has given Jonson an undeserved reputation for harsh judgments, and has cast blame on Drummond for blackening his guest's memory.
In the winter of 1618 – 19 Jonson told William Drummond of Hawthornden that the Earl of Northampton was his " mortal enemy " because Jonson had beaten one of the Earl's servants, and that Northampton had had Jonson called before the Privy Council on an accusation of " Popery and treason ," based on Sejanus.
Commendatory verses by Richard Brome in the Beaumont and Fletcher 1647 folio place Fletcher in the company of Ben Jonson ; a comment of Jonson's to Drummond corroborates this claim, although it is not known when this friendship began.

Jonson and Marston
* 1605 – The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
But he was in great demand and also appeared in the plays of many of the great contemporary writers, such as Ben Jonson ( the title role in Volpone, and Subtle in The Alchemist ), John Marston ( The Malcontent ), John Webster ( The Duchess of Malfi ) and Beaumont and Fletcher ( The Maid's Tragedy ).
* George Chapman, Ben Jonson & John Marston – Eastward Hoe ( performed & published )
In Histriomastix, Marston satirizes Jonson ’ s pride through the character Chrisoganus ; Jonson responds by satirizing Marstons's wordy style in Every Man Out of His Humour, acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
To these years belong the collaborations with Ben Jonson and John Marston which presumably contributed to the War of the Theatres in 1600 and 1601.
In that year, also, he collaborated with Chettle, Jonson, and Marston on a play about Robert II.
He variously commissioned, bought and produced plays by, or made loans to Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, Robert Greene, Henry Chettle, George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Anthony Munday, Henry Porter, John Day, John Marston and Michael Drayton.
Individual scholars have attributed the play to Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and Michael Drayton ; others have suggested Thomas Heywood and George Wilkins.
Eastward Ho ( 1605 ), written with Jonson and John Marston, contained satirical references to the Scots which landed Chapman and Jonson in jail.
* Chapman, George, Benjamin Jonson et John Marston.
On the excuse of discussing a recently-published collection of extracts from contemporary poetry, John Bodenham's Belvedere, he briefly criticizes, or rather characterizes, a number of writers of the day, among them being Spenser, Constable, Michael Drayton, John Davies, John Marston, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, and Thomas Nashe ; the last of whom is referred to as dead.
The character Lampatho Doria is generally thought to represent Ben Jonson, Marston's opponent in the controversy, while Quadratus may stand in for Marston himself.
Traditionally, though without strong external attribution, Histriomastix has been regarded as his first play ; performed by either the Children of Paul's or the students of the Middle Temple in around 1599, it appears to have sparked the War of the Theatres, the literary feud between Marston, Jonson and Dekker that took place between around 1599 and 1602.
For his part, Marston may have satirized Jonson as the complacent, arrogant critic Brabant Senior in Jack Drum's Entertainment and as the envious, misanthropic playwright and satirist Lampatho Doria in What You Will.
If Jonson can be trusted, the animosity between himself and Marston went beyond the literary.
However, the two playwrights were reconciled soon after the so-called War ; Marston wrote a prefatory poem for Jonson's Sejanus in 1605 and dedicated The Malcontent to Jonson.
Chapman and Jonson were arrested for, according to Jonson, a few clauses that offended the Scots, but Marston escaped any imprisonment.
William Gifford, perhaps the eighteenth century's most devoted reader of Jonson, called Marston " the most scurrilous, filthy and obscene writer of his time.
* Eastward Ho, by Marston, George Chapman, and Ben Jonson, London, Blackfriars theater, 1604-1605.

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