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n. - English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637).

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  • By the way, if you need an introduction to the language of the Elizabethan era and find Shakespeare daunting, Ben Jonson is a wonderful primer.
  • Men of Shakespeare's generation, such as Jonson, did not think him learned; nor did men of the next generation.
  • Nor are Colman and Jonson alone in their tribulations.
  • And he may have had one in Jonson; at least he thought he had.
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