Ben Jonson - Paragraph

Ben Jonson - Paragraph

Ben Jonson was born in West-minister in later 1572, a month after the death of his father. Two years after his birth, his mother married again. Jonson studied at first at a private school in St. Maztin's Lane and later in West-minister School and according to some biographers in Cambridge. He married at the age of twenty. His eldest daughter, Maria, died in November, 1593 when she was only six months old. His eldest son died of plague ten years later. A younger son died in 1635. Jonson's first connection with the theater was of a touring company in 1597. In the same year the wrote a play for the company named "Isle of Dogs" for which he was imprisoned about with several members. One year after his imprisonment he wrote one of the most famous English comedies "Every man in His Humor." which took three more years to publish. Afterwards he wrote many dramas one after another including his most successful drama "Volpone." He was acknowledged chief of the English world of knowledge and learning. Death came upon the sick old man an August 6, 1937.