Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey. Jonson always seemed to be poor, in spite of gifts from royalty, and he died in great poverty in ...

The tone of a satire varies from tolerant amusement found ... which are available in the plays of Ben Jonson and in those of Moliere. The poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer or of Lord Byron also entails ...

St John’s students were putting on their own play - a satire produced as part of the ... of the day – William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Ben Jonson (1573–1637) by Charles Fullwood (Painted ...