Jonson

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• Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• Jonson's use of strict verisimilitude helps to facilitate yet another layer of deception by employing a fixed sense of time.
• O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow! he brought vp Horace giuing the Poets a pill, [xi: 3] but our fellow Shakespeare hath giuen him a purge that made him beray his credit. Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
• Jonson has run the gamut of hotel work, from porter to owner of a large chain of hotels.
• He died there in the summer of 1627, and was succeeded as chronologer by Ben Jonson. A History of Elizabethan Literature
• Arriving at the end of the masque, Caliban and his fellows effectively invert the form of the Jonsonian masque and with it Prospero's ability to control the terms of the marriage.
• Ben Jonson mentions Shakespeare's scholastic failings "and though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek" in his dedicatory poem to his great peer's 1623 folio. Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare
• Born in London the posthumous son of a clergyman and trained by his stepfather as a bricklayer, Jonson became a mercenary, then an actor and leading playwright.
• The literary element was probably the most important component and among those who wrote texts for masques were Ben Jonson and John Milton.
• Jonson allows the head male character to be exceedingly great at his craft of deception.