![]() ![]() He fled to serve with English regiments in the Netherlands and, upon his return to England, began his career as an actor and playwright (“Ben Jonson”). Later, a family friend paid for his studies at Westminster School on leaving Westminster School, Jonson was to have attended the University of Cambridge, to continue his book learning but did not, because of his unwilled apprenticeship to his bricklayer stepfather. Jonson attended school in St Martin’s Lane. Jonson’s mother married a master bricklayer two years later. Jonson’s father lost his property, was imprisoned and suffered forfeiture under Queen Mary having become a clergyman upon his release, he died a month before his son’s birth. ![]() Wikimedia Commons.īenjamin Jonson (1572 – 1637 ) was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy and “…is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I” (qtd. ![]() “Benjamin Johnson, after Abraham van Blyenberch,” by unknown artist. ![]()
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