Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was an English poet, playwright, and literary critic, whose influence on English Renaissance literature during the Jacobean Era (1603-1625) has been regarded as second only to that of William Shakespeare (1564-1616). #History #ElizabethanTheatre #BenJonson #EnglishRenaissance #JacobeanLiterature #WilliamShakespeare #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24461-en/