Ben Jonson

Life

Born: c. 11 June 1572

Died: 6 August 1637

Biography

Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets.

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Settings of text by Ben Jonson

• Drink to me only (Henry Elliot Button)
• Drink to me only (Traditional)
• Drink to me only with thine eyes (Elizabeth Turner)
• From Oberon, in Fairy land (Richard John Samuel Stevens)
• Hymn to Cynthia (Berthold Tours)
• Hymn to Cynthia (Henry Thomas Smart)
• Hymn to Diana (Mark Chapman)
• Hymn to the moon (Josiah Booth)
• I sing the birth (Arthur Sullivan)
• I sing the birth (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
• I sing the birth (Claude Goudimel)
• I sing the birth (Clifford Boyd)
• I sing the birth (Edward Elgar)
• I sing the birth (James Gibb)
• Queen and Huntress (Jeffrey Quick)
• Robin Goodfellow (George Alexander Macfarren)
• Slow fresh fount (William Horsley)
• Slow, slow, fresh fount (Jon Corelis)
• Slow, slow, fresh fount (Thomas Attwood Walmisley)
• To Diana (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
• Underneath this stone doth lie (William Benson Earle)

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