William Camden
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William Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland that relat
William Camden
Hand-coloured frontispiece and title page of the 1607 edition of Britannia
Camden at centre as Clarenceux King of Arms in the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, 1603
Frontispiece and title page of a 1675 edition of the Annales
Ben Jonson
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Ben Jonson was an English playwright, poet and actor. 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
William Camden
…His circle of friends and acquaintances included Lord Burghley, Fulke Greville, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Stow, John Dee, Jacques de Thou and Ben Jonson, who was Camden's student at Westminster and who dedicated an early edition of Every Man in His Humour to him. Camden's Britannia remained a standard…
Ben Jonson by George Vertue 1730
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