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Ben Jonson

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Early Life

  • Born June 11, 1572
  • Attended Westminster School
  • Worked as a bricklayer and served in the army
  • Became an actor and playwright
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Prime

  • Wrote many successful plays
  • Designed masques for King James I
  • First Poet Laureate
  • Killed Gabriel Spencer in a duel
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Late Life

  • Suffered a stroke in 1628
  • Made the city chronologer
  • Died in 1637 at the age of 65
  • Buried in Westminster Abbey

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