# Ben Jonson
Jonson Ben, (gerçek ismi "Benjamin Jonson") (11 Haziran 1572 - 6 Ağustos 1637), 17. yüzyıl İngiliz oyun yazarı, şair, oyuncu ve eleştirmen.
İngiltere'nin ikinci büyük tiyatro adamı (Shakespeare'dan sonra) olarak kabul edilir. Yaşamının İngiltere'de oyuncu ve yazar olarak adını duyurana kadarki bölümü hakkında pek fazla bir şey bilinmemektedir. 1598 yılında "Every man in his humour" adlı komedisi William Shakespeare'in kurduğu tiyatro topluluğu tarafından oynanmıştır. Shakespeare ile Jonson özel yaşamlarında da birbirlerinin yakın arkadaşlarındandır. 1604 yılında I. James tarafından saraya çağrılmış bu işte 20 yılını harcamıştır, artık sarayda gözden düşünce yeni komediler yazmaya karar vermişse de eski gücünü yitirdiğini fark etmiştir. Hayatının bir kısmına 2011 yapımı Anonymous filminde değinilmiştir.


## Oyunlar.
  - "A Tale of a Tub," komedi 1640)
  - "The Case is Altered" komedi 1597-8 
  - "Every Man in His Humour" komedi
  - "Every Man out of His Humour" komedi
  - "Cynthia's Revels" 
  - "The Poetaster," 
  - "Sejanus: His Fall," trajedi 
  - "Eastward Ho," komedi
  - "Volpone," comedy 
  - "Epicoene, or the Silent Woman," komedi 
  - "The Alchemist," komedi
  - "," trajedi
  - "Bartholomew Fair," komedi
  - "The Devil is an Ass," komedi
  - "The Staple of News," komedi
  - "The New Inn, or The Light Heart," komedi
  - "The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled," komedi
  - "The Sad Shepherd," pastoral (tamamlanmamış)
  - "Mortimer his Fall," tarih


## Maskeli piyesler.
  - "The Coronation Triumph," or "The King's Entertainment" (performed March 15, 1604  printed 1604)  with Thomas Dekker
  - "A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen on May-Day (The Penates)" (May 1, 1604  printed 1616)
  - "The Entertainment of the Queen and Prince Henry at Althorp (The Satyr)" (June 25, 1603  printed 1604)
  - "The Masque of Blackness" (Jan. 6, 1605  printed ca. 1608)
  - "Hymenaei" (Jan. 5, 1606  printed 1606)
  - "The Entertainment of the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark (The Hours)" (July 24, 1606  printed 1616)
  - "The Masque of Beauty" (Jan. 10, 1608  printed ca. 1608)
  - "The Masque of Queens" (Feb. 2, 1609  printed 1609)
  - "Hue and Cry after Cupid," or "The Masque at Lord Haddington's Marriage" (Feb. 9, 1608  printed ca. 1608)
  - "The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers," or "The Lady of the Lake" (Jan. 6, 1610  printed 1616)
  - "Oberon, the Faery Prince" (Jan. 1, 1611  printed 1616)
  - "Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly" (Feb. 3, 1611  printed 1616)
  - "Love Restored" (Jan. 6, 1612  printed 1616)
  - "A Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage" (Dec. 27, 1613/Jan. 1, 1614  Printed 1616)
  - "The Irish Masque at Court" (Dec. 29, 1613  printed 1616)
  - "Christmas, his Masque" (Christmas 1616  printed 1641)
  - "The Vision of Delight" (Jan. 6, 1617  printed 1641)
  - "Lovers Made Men," or "The Masque of Lethe," or "The Masque at Lord Hay's" (Feb. 22, 1617  printed 1617)
  - "Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue" (Jan. 6, 1618  printed 1641) The masque was a failure  Jonson revised it by placing the anti-masque first, turning it into:
  - "For the Honor of Wales" (Feb. 17, 1618  printed 1641)
  - "News from the New World Discovered in the Moon" (Jan. 7, 1620: printed 1641)
  - "The Entertainment at Blackfriars, or "The Newcastle Entertainment" (May 1620?  MS)
  - "Pan's Anniversary, or The Shepherds' Holy-Day" (June 19, 1620?  printed 1641)
  - "The Gypsies Metamorphosed" (Aug 3 and 5, 1621  printed 1640)
  - "The Masque of Augurs" (Jan. 6, 1622  printed 1622)
  - "Time Vindicated to Himself, and to his Honors" (Jan. 19, 1623  printed 1623)
  - "Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion" (Jan. 26, 1624  printed 1624)
  - "The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth" (Aug. 19, 1624  printed 1641)
  - "The Fortunate Isles and their Union" (Jan. 9, 1625  printed 1625)
  - "Love's Triumph Through Callipolis" (Jan. 9, 1631  printed 1631)
  - "Chloridia: Rites to Chloris and Her Nymphs" (Feb. 22, 1631  printed 1631)
  - "The King's Entertainment at Welbeck in Nottinghamshire" (May 21, 1633  printed 1641)
  - "Love's Welcome at Balsover" (July 30, 1634  printed 1641)


## Diğer.
  - Epigrams (1612)
  - The Forest (1616)
  - A Discourse of Love (1618)
  - Barclay's Argenis, (1623)
  - The Execration against Vulcan with Epigrams (1640)
  - Horace's Art of Poetry(1640) 
  - Underwoods (1640)
  - Timber or Discoveries