Ben Jonson
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Ben Jonson was an English actor, poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the s
Westminster School master William Camden cultivated the artistic genius of Ben Jonson.
The Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden was friend and confidant to Jonson.
Title page of The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (1616), the first folio publication that included stage plays
Samuel Daniel
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Samuel Daniel was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet
Portrait of Daniel's patron, Mary Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke, by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1590. Daniel dedicated Delia and The Tragedy of Cleopatra to the Countess.
King James I
Anne of Denmark
Memorial to Samuel Daniel at St George's Church, Beckington in Somerset