# Ben Jonson

> The playwright who stood second only to Shakespeare in the Jacobean theatre - and invented the comedy of humours, a form that mapped character to bodily fluid and mined human obsession for satire sharp enough to cut through four centuries.

*English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1572-06-11
- **Died:** 1637-08-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born around 11 June 1572, Jonson came up through classical education and emerged as a poet, actor, and the most formidable stage satirist of the English Renaissance. Every Man in His Humour arrived in 1598, then Volpone around 1606, The Alchemist in 1610, Bartholomew Fair in 1614 - each a machine for exposing greed, delusion, and the appetites that warp men into types. He courted controversy on every front, personal and political, artistic and intellectual, and his breadth of influence over the playwrights and poets of the Jacobean and Caroline eras had no rival. He died 18 August 1637, leaving English comedy rewired and a body of lyric and epigrammatic poetry that held its own against the age.

## Fame
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