Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

male, deceased (1637)
buried at Westminster Abbey, satirical, jacobean, Renaissance, English Poets Laureate, English Renaissance dramatist…English, Literature in English, EnglishRenaissance
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 - 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he...
David Bevington

David Bevington

male
Creepy Crawlers, University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, effigy, British drama, comparative literature, EnglishRenaissance…English drama, English Language & Literature, Renaissance
David Bevington is Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and in English Language & Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College at the...
Thomas Hoby

Thomas Hoby

male, deceased (1566)
from Bisham, Ambassador to France, ambassador, EnglishRenaissance, Elizabethan era, Leominster…English
Sir Thomas Hoby (1530 - 1566) was an English diplomat and translator. He was probably born at Leominster in Herefordshire and educated at St John's...
George Lyman Kittredge

George Lyman Kittredge

male, deceased (1941)
Harvard University, english literature, Academic, Literary critic, the nation, philology…Renaissance literature, EnglishRenaissance
George Lyman Kittredge was a scholar of English literature and a professor at Harvard University. Between his position at Harvard and his editions...
Marco Mincoff

Marco Mincoff

male, deceased (1987)
Shakespeare academia, University of Sofia, shakespeare, stylistics, University of Berlin, EnglishRenaissance
Marco Mincoff (1909-1987) Shakespearean scholar and professor of English Studies at the University of Sofia. Mincoff was born July 15 (28), 1909 in...
Humphrey Tonkin

Humphrey Tonkin

male, 70 years old
Esperantist, Harvard University, EnglishRenaissance, Potsdam College, World Esperanto Association, Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino
Humphrey R. Tonkin is professor of English, president emeritus of the University of Hartford in Connecticut, and a dedicated Esperantist. Born in...