I posted my first entry in this review series of The Sandman back in March of 2015. It began as a thing to do to fill one of my weekly blogging slots and a chance to spend some time thinking more deeply about one of my favorite comic series. 1,390 more words
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The Alchemist and The Philosopher's Stone
26th September 16: You may not have heard of him but Ben Jonson is author of some of the most outrageous sitcoms of the decade. His hugely popular work is filled with colourful arrays of dodgy characters all out for themselves and getting themselves deeper and deeper into trouble with every twist and turn of the plot, heading inexorably towards their undoing as their plans get out of hand and riotous chaos ensues. 760 more words
22nd September 1598. Benefit of Clergy.
The years 1827-28 saw the criminal law ‘Peel Acts’ finally and formally abolish ‘Benefit of Clergy’ in Great Britain and Ireland.
Today in 1598 Ben Jonson the playwright and friend of Shakespeare, fought a duel at Hogsden Fields, London, but ended up killing his opponent a fellow actor Gabriel Spencer and being charged with manslaughter. 419 more words
TDISH: An Actor's Duel
On September 22, 1598, in the Fields of Shoreditch in London, England, two of the kingdom’s small circle of theatre-men met. One was Ben Jonson, a playwright and poet, whose works would be overshadowed by his contemporary, one William Shakespeare, but who was certainly an accomplished master of the theatre. 203 more words
Creating a Legacy
Our Artistic Director gives some of her thoughts on how Ben Jonson’s publication of his folio of Works may have been an attempt by him to influence the legacy he woud leave behind. 757 more words
no love lost
illustration for
Children in the Wood: or, The Norfolk Gentleman’s last Will and Testament (1818)
The phrase there’s no, or little, or not much… 539 more words
Culross to Dunfermline: Social Walk, Sunday 25th September
Next Sunday, September 25th, we are participating in a social walk which takes its inspiration from tracing Ben Jonson’s journey from Culross Palace to Dunfermline Abbey nearly 400 years ago. 896 more words
