Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey. Jonson always seemed to be poor, in spite of gifts from royalty, and he died in great poverty in ...

"In Bluestone’s poetry, the plays of Ben Jonson and the escapades of Harpo Marx go on forever,” says fellow poet Louis Simpson. “Whatever has happened must still be happening.” For Stephen Bluestone ...

William Shakespeare played a jealous husband in a 1598 drama by fellow playwright Ben Jonson, an academic has suggested. Dr Darren Freebury-Jones, a lecturer in Shakespeare studies at the ...

In Sly Fox, comic legend Larry Gelbart's ingenious reimagining of Ben Jonson's Volpone, Richard Dreyfuss stars as devious conman Foxwell J. Sly, who, with his servant Simon Able (Eric Stoltz ...