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  • In the latter sense I should call Ben Jonson a contemporary of Shakspeare, though he long survived him; while I should prefer the phrase of immediate successors for

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Other sonnets to patrons are scattered through collections of occasional poems, such as Ben Jonson's

    A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

  • What a pity Handel could not have written music to some great Masque, such as Ben Jonson or Milton would have written, if they had known of such a musician to write for.

    Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846

  • You know, contemporaries such as Ben Jonson; Francis Bacon; Christopher Marlowe; or even Queen Elizabeth I.

    Archive 2005-10-01 RICHARD 2005

  • You know, contemporaries such as Ben Jonson; Francis Bacon; Christopher Marlowe; or even Queen Elizabeth I.

    You Whoreson Beetle-Headed, Flap-Eared Knave RICHARD 2005

  • Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Ben Jonson, arguably the more celebrated playwright during the era, did not receive a college education either.

    Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare Jonathan Hobratsch 2011

  • Ben Jonson, Francis Meres, Henry Chettle, Robert Greene, Richard Barnfield, Gabriel Harvey, Francis Beaumont best-friend of John Fletcher, one of Shakespeare's collaborators are among the many people known to have written about or alluded to Shakespeare.

    Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare Jonathan Hobratsch 2011

  • Ben Jonson, Francis Meres, Henry Chettle, Robert Greene, Richard Barnfield, Gabriel Harvey, Francis Beaumont best-friend of John Fletcher, one of Shakespeare's collaborators are among the many people known to have written about or alluded to Shakespeare.

    Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare Jonathan Hobratsch 2011

  • Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Ben Jonson, arguably the more celebrated playwright during the era, did not receive a college education either.

    Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare Jonathan Hobratsch 2011

  • Ben Jonson mentions Shakespeare's scholastic failings "and though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek" in his dedicatory poem to his great peer's 1623 folio.

    Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare Jonathan Hobratsch 2011

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  • See Jonson.

    September 4, 2010