Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson Paperback Book 9780571226795

Ben Jonson 15721637 was born in London and became a leading poet playwright and essayist of the Elizabethan age In 1598 he killed an actor in a duel but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy and by 1616 had reestablished enough Court favour to be awarded a pension by James I in effect making him the first Poet Laureate