Seven years after Shakespeare's death ... book's preface was written by another of the leading Elizabethan dramatists, Ben Jonson, who paid him a fulsome tribute: "Soul of the age!

The verbal wit and gender fluidity of his comedies owe much to John Lyly’s courtly style, and traces of some of Ben Jonson’s plays, in which Shakespeare acted, show up in his writing.

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 ...

“Shakespeare may have been a member of ... scandal which landed two of their cast - plus the famous playwright Ben Jonson - in prison. Ben Jonson (c) Yale Center for British Art; Yale University ...

400 years after his death, Shakespeare’s sonnets live on in your smartphone After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age ...