Nov 24 2024 31 mins 10
Episode 145:
Continuing the story of Ben Jonson’s life from the point where just as he starts to make his mark in the theatre scene everything goes very badly wrong for him.
‘The Isle of Dogs’ at the Swan Theatre
The closure of the London Theatres
Jonson in prison
How the London theatres reopened
The Swan and Pembroke’s Men
Speculation on the content of ‘The Isle of Dogs’
Jonson’s other early work for the theatre
Jonson and the Lord Chamberlin’s Men
Jonson’s duel with Gabriel Spencer
Jonson in prison again
The conversion to Catholicism
Jonson’s trial and taking ‘the benefit of the clergy’
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