Websites
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Ben had quite the life, and you can learn all about it here.
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This dude was a Poet-with-a-capital-P, so of course he has his own page on poets.org.
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Revel with Cynthia. You know you want to.
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Jonson was a great playwright among many great playwrights, and this web-book will tell you all about the golden age of English theater in Jonson and Shakespeare's time.
Video
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Sing it loud and proud "O faintly gentle springs." Or sing it slow and sad. Whatever works.
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A choir singing – here, the words are more intelligible, not that you didn't have them memorized already.
Images
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Unfortunately, Shmoop couldn't find an audio recording of "Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount," but you can have a listen to Jonson's "Song: To Celia."
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He looks like a pretty nice fellow, right?
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Not that you'll be able to read it or anything. But in any case, here's a pic of a copy of Jonson's edition of a Latin text (Martial), with his notes in the right margin.
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In this 17th century painting, Nicolas Poussin shows narcissistic Narcissus gazing adoringly at his reflection in the water.
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More of the same, brought to you by the English master J.W. Waterhouse.
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Just in case you love Narcissus as much as he loves himself, check out yet another depiction of the youth, this time by Caravaggio.
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Here's a drawing of what the theater would have looked like in Jonson's time. Yes, that's a bear.
Historical Documents
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Check out this review of a recent Jonson biography, and if you want to learn more, go ahead and buy the book!
Books
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Like what you read in "Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount "? There's more where that came from.
Movies & TV
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A fictionalized version of Ben Jonson is depicted in the 2011 flick Anonymous, directed by Roland Emmerich, the creative genius behind 2008's 10,000 B.C.