For years, only the Shakespeares and Dickenses of the world have been the mainstays in our English classrooms, with no room for the Rokeyas — voices that resonate with our culture and identity. It’s t ...

Chicago’s introduction to Ben Johnson as the Bears’ savior-in-chief — a k a: head coach — seemed more coronation than filling ...

But Les Valseuses had admirers, too, including the doyenne of American film critics, Pauline Kael, who compared it to Ben Jonson’s farces ... he found work as an assistant director to Jean ...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ... Did you know: This wise saying is attributed to the 16th century English playwright Ben Jonson. 15. Look before you leap. The proverb tells us ...

These refuse to work; they prefer to lie idly in ale-houses ... a play called ‘The Isle of Dogs’ written by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson, was banned. We don’t actually know what was in ...

Work begins, and Tóth’s wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones ... You could call their exaggerated natures Dickensian, but they have as much in common with Ben Jonson’s Jacobean comedy of humors, in which ...

Not even an accessible biography, at that, but a systematic survey of his dramatic work, via an examination of the supreme ... As the likes of Falstaff are (in a phrase borrowed from Ben Jonson) ...

From there he embarks on an extraordinary series of physical, historical and linguistic journeys, connecting Selden with political opposition to Stuart rule, his membership of the literary ‘tribe’ of ...