Ben Jonson

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