Ben Johnson was an English playwright and poet. Jonson artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy.He popularised the comedy of Humours,he is best ky for satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598) Volpone or The Fox . The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry."He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James. Born : C 11 June 1572. Westminster London. England. Died. : C 16 August 1637 (aged 65) London England Occupation : playwright, poet. Jonson was a classically education well read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy political artistic and intelleled breadth upon the playwright and the poet's of the Jacobean era and of the Caroline era. His ancestors spelled the Family name with a letter "t" while the spelling had eventually changed to the more common " Johnson " the playwrights own particular preference became "Jonson".