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8 ppg), Ben Jonson (10. 4) and Yaw Gyawu (10. (Patriotleague.com)
New book shows lavish Shakespeare illustrations Nov 10, 2009
Portraits reproduced in full pages show what two of his rivals - Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson - actually looked like. Bryson carefully evaluates pictures accepted or supposed to be of Shakespeare himself. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Larry Gelbart; ‘Oh God!’ writer won Emmy for ‘M*A*S*H’ Sep 12, 2009
Mr. Gelbart also returned to the theater with Sly Fox, which transformed Ben Jonson s Elizabethan Volpone to Gold Rush San Francisco. Starring George C. Scott as the devious miser, it was a solid success. (Boston Globe)
No comments posted. Aug 29, 2009
It felt strange attending a Shakespeare festival and not seeing any Shakespeare, but the Bard s influence could be sensed in most everything we did see, from the aforementioned musicals to classic plays by Anton Chekhov, Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare s contemporary Ben Jonson ... Like Ph;dre, Ben Jonson s Bartholomew Fair left me cold. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
* [SOFT COVER : US] Shakespeare on the Chinese stage Aug 16, 2009
However, a quick look at the prefatory material to the Folio edition of almost all of Shakespeares plays of 1623 unambiguously demonstrates that his reputation was sky-high even seven years after his death, with his friend and colleague Ben Jonson asserting that he was probably a greater dramatist than any produced by Greece or Rome. This absurd relating of Shakespeares status to British imperialism isnt the only flaw in this otherwise competent book. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Titcom’s Bookshop in East Sandwich celebrates 40th anniversary Aug 2, 2009
A statue of English Renaissance poet and playwright Ben Jonson greets visitors ... Son Ted Titcomb s statue of Ben Jonson, the English Renaissance poet, playwright, and voracious reader, has stood outside the shop since 1973. (Boston Globe)
Skeptic's Take on the Life and Argued Works of Shakespeare Aug 1, 2009
As for Shakespeare s humble upbringing, his father was a middle-class landowner whose estate was valued at the then respectable sum of 500 (you could purchase a modest home for 50) and whose social standing was as high as or higher than that of either Marlowe or Ben Jonson, who were themselves sons of a shoemaker and bricklayer, respectively, and somehow managed to master the belles lettres. In the end, it s not enough merely to plant doubts about Will. (Scientific American)
A Tale of Two Buckleys Jul 7, 2009
Greatness of name in the father often times overwhelms the son, Ben Jonson wrote. They stand too near one another, the shadow kills the growth. (The American Conservative)
Will, we hardly knew ye - and still don't Jun 21, 2009
His title derives from a poem by Ben Jonson, included in the First Folio of 1623, which praises Shakespeare as soul of the age. Taking a further cue from Jaques s seven ages of man speech in As You Like It, Bate presents seven chapters that survey Shakespeare from infancy to old age. (Boston Globe)
British poet receives top royal honor May 2, 2009
The first to hold the post was Ben Jonson in 1619; others have included John Dryden, William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson, John Betjeman, and Ted Hughes. Don't Miss. (CNN -- World)
Shakespeare: Soul of the age Apr 7, 2009
IN HIS 1997 book, The Genius of Shakespeare , Jonathan Bate wrote about the man whom Ben Jonson, a rival playwright, poet and actor, described as not of the age, but for all time. In his new book, which is being published in America this month (it came out in Britain in October), Mr Bate explores a different Shakespeare, one Jonson described as Soul of the Age. (The Economist)
Should We Care What Shakespeare Did in Bed? Apr 2, 2009
He's no longer the pudgy, balding figure we see in the so-called "Droeshout engraving" that appears on the cover of the First Folio, the engraving that most experts, drawing on quotations from those (like fellow poet Ben Jonson) who knew Shakespeare in the flesh, testify is his likeness. What is remarkable about the fight over this "new" portraitand it is, indeed, developing into a scholarly shootoutis that one of the leading eminences of British academic Shakespeare, Stanley Wells,... (Slate)
7 days 8 questions Mar 28, 2009
The others - among them Ben Jonson and Ted Hughes - held the post until their deaths. It cost him $35m to visit the International Space Station this time around. (BBC News -- UK)
* Labors journey from job to work to little rows of noughts Mar 19, 2009
One of the puritans mocked by Ben Jonson in his play Bartholomew Fair is called Zeal-of-the-Land Busy: Zealotry and business, as Jonson recognized, had made a shrewd and lucrative merger. In 18th-century France, the compilers of the Encyclopedie laughed at the lassitude of the governing elite and treated artisans with unprecedented respect. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Bard likeness Mar 12, 2009
THE ANSWER Droeshout's engraving appears on hugely important First Folio Its likeness to Shakespeare praised by Ben Jonson No evidence that friends or family disagreed with his assessment ... "The only two images with any strong claims of authenticity are the Droeshout and the bust in the church in Stratford. WHO WAS DROESHOUT? English engraver of Flemish descent Born in 1601, he was about 15 when Shakespeare died His father was also an engraver As was his uncle, Martin Droeshout the Elder, who... (BBC News -- Europe)
Much ado about Bard portrait Mar 10, 2009
Scholars have long accepted the authenticity of the Droeshout, largely because Shakespeare's friend and fellow writer Ben Jonson affirmed it as a good likeness. The Trust painting which has been in the collection of Ireland's Cobbe family for centuries and is expected to be displayed next month at the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-on-Avon shows a slender-faced, aristocratic-looking individual with (perhaps) rouged cheeks, pale mien and a high, unlined forehead topped by a dark wig or receding... (Globe and Mail)
Page, Ladies split 'amicable' Feb 26, 2009
A statement on Page's website said that he will have plenty to do with more solo projects (his album The Vanity Project, a solo disc co-written with Stephen Duffy, appeared in 2005), a small tour with the Toronto-based Art of Time Ensemble, and his work at the Stratford Festival, where his music for the Ben Jonson play Bartholomew Fair will be heard in a production that previews in May. BNL has lost members before (drummer-turned-keyboardist Andy Creeggan left in the late nineties), and the band... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
