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...Head of the Poet Laureate" is a tale in which Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and one Giles Hemming plot, preach, and elope, respectively. The idea is well bandled; Mr. Nes is perhaps least fortunate in his dialogue, a strange mixture of modern phrases and what is apparently intended for seventeenth-century English. It may be doubted whether a Devon peasant ever could have said "how him an' me kin write verses an' ring a bell t' any tune." The story is nevertheless entertaining...
...Hamlet" will be acted upon an old English stage, first constructed in 1893 for the presentation of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman." The stage was afterwards remodeled at great expense and is now the most nearly perfect Elizabethan stage in existence. The last time it was used was in 1907 when Maude Adams acted "Twelfth Night" on it. The reconstruction of this stage for use in Sanders Theatre will be started about the middle of April under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker...
Aristophanes and Ben Jonson...
Aristophanes and Ben Jonson...
...contemporary and opponent of Dryden, who made him the butt of his satire "MacFlecknoe" or "The Satire upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet," an epithet which the readers of Shadwell's plays will consider inappropriate. Shadwell's tendency is to copy old models. "Bury Fair" is adapted from Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" and from Moliere's "Les Precieuses Ridicules." The poet draws from these comedies a satire on the people of his own time and the English court life...