Background
- 1572-Born
- Westminster School
- Started as Brick Layer then entered the Army
- 1592- Comes back to England
- 1594-Marries Anne Lewis
- 1597- Joins playwright Phillip Henslowe
- Imprisoned for "Isle of Dogs" Satire
- 1598-Killed Gabriel Spencer
- Escaped Death by pleading benefit of clergy
- 1610- Converted back to Anglican from Roman Catholic
- 1598- "Every Man in His Humour" performed by shakespeare in the globe
- 1599- "Every Man Out of His Humour"
- 1600- "Cynthia's Revels" and "War of the Theatres"
- 1601- "The Poetaster" about Thomes Dekker and John Marston
- 1601- "Satiromastix" attacked Jonson
- 1604- "The King's Entertainment" and "Eastard Ho"
- 1603- "Sejanus, His Fall" caused charges of treason
- 1605- "Gunpoweder Plot of Guy Fawkes", begins to write masques.
- 'The Satyr" moved him to court poet
- "Masque of Blacknesse" Furst to use Indigo Jones for set design
- "Masque of Beauty", "Masque of Owles" and "Masque of Queens"
- 1605-1614 Comedies
- 1605- "Volpone" his Masterpiece
- 1609- "Epicoene: or, The Silent Woman"
- 1610- "The Alchemist"
- 1614- 'Bartholomew Fair"
- 1616- his "Works" are published
- 1616- "Devil is an Ass" is a Flop
- 1625- 'The Staple of News", Mermaid Tavern- Group of young poets "Sons" and "Tribe" of Ben
- 1628- City Chronologer, suffered stroke
- 1637- Died, Buried Westmister Abbey
- 1641- "Sad Shepard"
Come My Celia, Let Us Prove
Come my celia, let us have sex while we can. Time will not wait for us forver, he will ruin our beauty. Do not waste what you were given. Suns that set will rise again but if we lose this it will not come back, its with us forever in death. Why should we wait? Fame and rumor mean nothing, why can't we fool the people. It is no sin to have sex, only a sin to reveal that we had it. Its only a crime if we are caught.
Clerimont's Song
Stanza 1: You are still dressed, and near as if you were going to a feast. Still powdered and perfumed , it is presumed that you are hiding somthing with that Art. Something is wrong.
Stanza 2: Give me back simplicity, with robes loosely flowing and hair free, such neglect in Art is more pleasurable to me than all the adulteries of Art. Arti strikes my eyes but not my heart.
Though I Am Young
Stanza 1: Although I am young and can not tell whether Death or Love is better, I have heard they both are dangerous and have an eye on the heart. Yet, I have also heard that Love wounds with hot blood and death with cold blood. I fear they both mean pain that is extreme at first.
Stanza 2: We may die by being blown up, or falling, or by lightning, or a wave, or Cupid's arrmor may kill as death's cold hand except that Love has more power because it can live on in memories.
In the Person of Womankind
Stanza 1: Men if you love us stop being fools and tyrants to make us court you over and over with fake praise for your amusment. We have wits and likes too and if you want us sing, lets sing of you.
Stanza 2: We do not doubt that we can find a good man for ourselves. So, at last through all of your shit we shall finally make a good song.
Stanza 3: Just as how a painter takes more pleasure in making a painting than having one made for him. We too shall enjoy this more. And after making this art we will try and make anew and stick to it.
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