'True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice." - Ben Jonson #WednesdayMotivation #QuoteOfTheDay #ContinuousImprovement #Coaching #LyonStrategic #BenJonson
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Norman Rockefeller's speech guy has his head replaced with Marco Rubio, and the old guy smiling next to him is dark orange Donald Trump!
I'm the smartest guy of this administration! I can even quote Elizabethan Playwrights, here's Ben Jonson "Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need" pretty cool, huh!
#marcorubio #trump #townhall #meeting #somethingtosay #benjonson #quotes
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The 'war of the theatres' reaches it's climax in Ben Jonson's 'Poetaster' as he satires Elizabethan playwrights in a play set in imperial Rome. Some analysis and explanations in today's new episode. #theatre #theatrehistory #benjonson #satire #podcast
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After a short break the podcast returns with a look at Ben Jonson's 'Cynthia's Revels', a play written for performance by the Children of the Choir, a troupe of boy players. It's a satiric Comedy but with some hard hitting political comments too. #theatre #benjonson #theatrehistory #satire #comedy
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Have written up some thoughts about Ben Jonson's play Sejanus, set during the reign of Emperor Tiberius. Rarely performed and time it was staged again. #17thcenturyliterature, #JamesVI, #JamesI, #Benjonson, aburntship.blogspot.com/2025/12/seja...
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I stepped back into acting after a long absence — as Dame Kitely in Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour.
📜 Blog: Returning to the Stage: Character, Caricature, and the Curious Case of Dame Kitely sharonecathcart.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/r...
#TheatreThoughts #ElizabethanDrama #BenJonson #AmActing
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Just performed as Dame Kitely in a reader’s theatre production of Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson. No rehearsal, Elizabethan language, and a cast of wildly varied experience. It reminded me why I love the stage — and why Jonson is not Shakespeare.
🎭 Blog post here: Returning to the Stage […]
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"Do not expect to hear of all your good at once" a song and chorus from Ben Jonson's #Masque of Augurs (1622). Music by Nicholas Lanier, who was born #onthisday 1588.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYMW...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #benjonson #courtmasque
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Screenshot of Facebook post from the Newberry library with a picture of Bears Head coach Ben Johnson and 17th-century playwright and poet Ben Jonson. Caption text: With the Chicago Bears’ season kicking off this weekend, and much excitement about new Head Coach Ben Johnson, it seems an appropriate time to reflect on the life of esteemed playwright, poet, and actor Ben Jonson (1572-1637). The Newberry owns a copy of “The Workes of Ben Jonson,” published in 1616, six years before William Shakespeare’s famed “First Folio,” which is also held at the library. In fact, Jonson wrote dedicatory lines to the “First Folio,” and Shakespeare was listed as an actor in a number of Jonson’s plays. 🏈Ben Johnson vs. 🎭Ben Jonson 🎉Claim to fame: Bears coach vs. "the second greatest playwright" 📕Education: University of North Carolina vs. Westminster School 📍Hometown: Asheville, N.C. vs. London 😒Famous frenemy: Lions' Dan Campbell vs. William Shakespeare 🔌NL connection: football postcards vs. "The Workes"
It's like the Newberry Library peered into my brane
#earlymodern #benjonson #chicagobears #chicago
@benjonson.bsky.social
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, To Fine Grand King James.
youtu.be/uqYMPK3gfSQ
Knowledge of Ben Jonson's various masques and epigrams is needed to solve this fearful epigram.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, To a Weak Gamester in Poetry.
youtu.be/KRgPcZ09ul4
A gamester of poetry pursues Jonson in the literary world, but Jonson must give way and escape him. It fits not Jonson's nature. There must be a good reason for that.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
youtu.be/7sxfQBNWdrk
Elizabeth Talbot, Bess of Hardwick, was enormous wealthy and famous for her shrewdness.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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"O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!"
Poems: allpoetry.com/Ben-Jonson
✒ #BenJonson, English poet and playwright, #DOTD 18 August 1637 #Theatre #Poetry #Literature
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, On Poet-Ape.
youtu.be/sx7g6hoqRfo
Poet-Ape is a broker. He buys plays for his master ("our chief"[1]), not for himself.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, To the Learned Critic.
youtu.be/stcchqdG0v0
Ben Jonson compared Michael Drayton with Michael the Archangel in the literary world, both in the epigram and his monument.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Good morning #booksky
🔴 160 Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston premieres at the Blackfriars Theatre, London, landing two of the authors in prison for offending the King James
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #August13 #BenJonson #GeorgeChapman #JohnMarston
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, To Proule the Plagiary.
youtu.be/BmKRTC9Wi1Q
Jonson accused a plagiarist and nicknamed him Proule. He used "belly" and "libel" as a hint to resolve this epigram.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, Of Life and Death.
youtu.be/HUKc4whOGj8
Death and life of this epigram refer to dull and lively writing and reading. In Ben Jonson’s literary world, dull manners are sins; lively, good deeds.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, To Pertinax Cob.
youtu.be/ZGpziChhaR8
Christopher Marlowe, who owned the pen of pert-in-ax, lived after his fake death as a cobbler of Shakespeare plays and poems.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, To my mere English Censurer.
youtu.be/QYNKa0kXOcQ
Ben Jonson mocked John Lyly as "John Little-wit" (Euphues) via Bartholomew Fayre, "English Tailor" (Macbeth), and Snug the joiner (A Midsummer Night's Dream).
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, To Brain-Hardy.
youtu.be/vKMcn_tiaIc
Ben Johnson can fight but would not. Epigrams from his valiant brain are what he can do more than to fight openly.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, On Old Colt.
youtu.be/Pj3iAWPYjIc
This epigram tells the penance of a wanton incubus with venereal disease.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Today's episode is a welcome return for @kaydaly.bsky.social as we discuss Ben Jonson's world view and draw some comparisons with Shakespeare and a couple of 1990s comedies. Out now #podcast #BenJonson #theatre #theatrehistory #comedy
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, On Gut.
youtu.be/IrifodO_2gM
Ben Jonson compared a satirist, who devours words and indulges satires,
with a satyr in the literary world.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, On Lippe the Teacher.
youtu.be/ia3bWSn_uts
Ben Jonson considered a player's lip, like the chief speaker preaching the gospel, is the teacher of the era.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, On Groyne.
youtu.be/wVieTlp71iw
This epigram is triggered by the young satirist George Wither’s "first fruits," the Abuses Stript and Whipt published in 1613, where he referred Jonson as "deepe conceits of now florishing Iohnson."
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, To Fool, or Knave.
youtu.be/V6HNhrmcc5k
Tone of this epigram's plain reading doesn’t fit Jonson's nature. It happens when Jonson is a member of Shakespeare circle.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, On Giles and Jone.
youtu.be/yzZESu0PjJo
This epigram talks about Jonson’s view on the merge of England, Ireland, and Scotland.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, To Doctor Empiric.
youtu.be/RkTPpeA53sc
Ben Jonson followed Socrates to give cock to Asclepius, but he gave two to free from both diseases and monarchism.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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Ben Jonson's Epigram, Of Death.
youtu.be/cd44rlE0J-A
Ben Jonson mocked the Jesuit shown little trust in the resurrection.
#Shakespeare #authorship #benjonson #Epigram
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