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Assignment No.1

Group 6 Leader:
Ayesha Shoukat
Reg.No: 18111066

Course:History of English Literature

Submitted to:
Ms. Amna Ghulam Nabi

Department:
BS-Humanities-3A
 Group Members

• Maheen Zafar (Huss 18111068)

• Shiza Tariq (Huss 18111014)
• Sabahat Tariq (Huss 18111011)
• Shanza Shahzad (Huss 18111035)
• Neha Fayyaz (Huss 18111046)
• Ammara Asghar (Huss 18111037)
• Ayesha Khan (Huss 18111030)
• Nadeem Shafi (Huss 18111090)
• Aasma younis (Huss 18111053)
• Noor ul Ain (Huss 18111055)
Topic:
BEN JONSON
(1573-1637)
Full name:
Benjamin Jonson
Born in:
He was born in 11 June 1573/2, London,
England
Education:
He was educated at Westminster School.
Where he came
under influence of classical scholar William
Camden.
Early life:
1n 1594 he married Ame Lewis and began to
work as a actor. Death:
He died in 6 august 1673 London England
buried in West Minster
Abbey.
Era:
He was from a Renaissance period
Known For:
He was a playwrighter and a poet. Best known
for his satiric comedies.
Dramatist:
In opinion to many people he was nest to
Shakespeare.2nd most
important England dramatist after
Shakespeare.
Major Comedian Plays:
• Alchemist (1610)
• Bartholomew fair (1614)
• Every man in his humor (1598)
• Volpone (1605)
• Epicone or the silent woman (1609)
Career:
Many people thought that England literary
work and particularly drama
had already reached as high as it could began
his career. He helped it to
gain higher goals. He has a strong sense of
artistic form and control. He
writes in a way of everyday people spoke.
Poems:
To Celia, which began one of the most popular
Victorian song. Other famous poem is the
hourglass on my first daughter and
various poems about Shakespeare.
Other Serious Plays:
• Cynthias revels 1601
• The mosque forest of blackness 1616
• Every man out of his humor 1598 novel
• The fox 1606
 • Poetaster 1601
• On my first sonnet 1616
• A discourse of love 1618
Difference between Shakespeare and Ben
Jonson:
Both were two great dramatist of elizabethan
age. They were two contemporaries, but the
two differed
sharply from each other as dramatists.
Indeed,ben Jonson has
always provided the typical antithesis to
Shakespeare. He has
always been contrasted with Shakespeare and
this has come in
the way of his recognition and popularity. He
was a great
dramatist but the Shakespeare shadow has
obscured his real
greatness for one thing, he is more original
than Shakespeare, Shakespeare always sailed
with the popular wind, but ben
Johnson had the guts to stand up against the
general current