Ben Jonson

CL 's comedy Old City Manners (an adaptation from Eastward Hoe! by Ben Jonson and others) opened at Drury Lane .

Lady Willoughby , the supposed author of the diary, was an actual person (born into the well-known Cecil family), who died in the year 1661. The work gives evidence of painstaking research into the two...

EI did not choose the plays herself. Shakespeare fills the first five volumes, apart from one piece by Ben Jonson , and five of her own plays fill volume 20. The eighteenth century is better...

Only a handful of copies of this survive (four were known in 1996). It was included by Germaine Greer , Jeslyn Medoff , and others in Kissing the Rod, 1988, and selected by...

As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan , her models included the suave, disciplined, informal, very accessible early poems of her near-contemporary Adrienne Rich . She wrote two stage works that were performed...

Bulstrode had by now been dead several years. Competing versions of the text were issued this year. The main work in this volume, the poem about the choice of a wife, was clearly extremely popular...

It is in three volumes, with a title-page quotation from Ben Jonson .

After Salve DeusAL placed The Description of Cooke-ham, which modern literary history identifies as the first country-house poem (a title which used to be given to Ben Jonson 's To Penshurst). Last...

The title poem is Queueing for the Sun in Walbrook. Some of her subjects here are literary: a poem about Boethius , another about Ben Jonson 's visit to Drummond of Hawthornden , a...