Difference between revisions of "Ben Jonson 1574-1637"

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Poet and playwright.

Ca. 300 books with his inscriptions are now known to survive, widely dispersed. He regularly wrote the motto ‘Tanquam exploratur’ on his titlepages.

Donaldson, Ian. "Jonson, Benjamin [Ben] (1572–1637), poet and playwright." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Evans, R. Ben Jonson’s library and marginalia: new evidence from the Folger collection, Philological Quarterly 66 (1987), 521-8.
Evans, R. Ben Jonson’s Chaucer, English Literary Renaissance 19 (1989), 324-45.
McPherson, D. Ben Jonson’s library and marginalia: an annotated catalogue, Studies in Philology 71 (1974), 1-106.
Ben Jonson inscription in Sion College Library.

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-Ca. 300 books with his inscriptions are now known to survive, widely [[dispersed::dispersed]]. He regularly wrote the motto ‘Tanquam exploratur’ on his titlepages.
+Ca. 300 books with his inscriptions are now known to survive, widely dispersed. He regularly wrote the motto ‘Tanquam exploratur’ on his titlepages.
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