How was the character Subtle known in the title of a play by Ben Jonson?
Ben Jonson Ben Jonson Benjamin Jonson ("c". 11 June 1572 – "c". 16 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays "Every Man in His Humour" (1598), "Volpone, or The Fox" (c. 1606), "The Alchemist" (1610) and "Bartholomew Fair" (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English playwright during the reign of James VI and I after William Shakespeare. Jonson was a classically
Ben Jonson John Fletcher and his collaborators. The comedy "The Widow" was printed in 1652 as the work of Thomas Middleton, Fletcher and Jonson, though scholars have been intensely sceptical about Jonson's presence in the play. A few attributions of anonymous plays, such as "The London Prodigal", have been ventured by individual researchers, but have met with cool responses. Ben Jonson Benjamin Jonson ("c". 11 June 1572 – "c". 16 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best