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Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet, the leading dramatist of the Jacobean stage after Shakespeare. His satirical comedies, among them Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair, mocked greed and folly in London life, and he wrote many court masques for James I. In 1616 he published his works in a folio volume, and he was a central figure of English literary life.
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