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  • I also recommend the restaurant for cognitive dissonance for long-time Connecticut residents, as the building it occupies is the former Howard Jonson's/Roy Rogers off exit 63 on I-84.

    you know the one who made it made it because she was actually pretty good. ashacat 2009

  • But Massinger has little of Ben Jonson's single-mindedness.

    The City Madam – review 2011

  • Perhaps inspired by the publication of Ben Jonson's collected works in 1616, two of Shakespeare's friends and fellow actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, set out to produce a hardcover edition containing all 36 of Shakespeare's dramatic works, 18 of which had never been published before.

    First Folio Follies Charles E. Pierce Jr. 2011

  • "VOLPONE" Greenbelt Arts Center presents Ben Jonson's play about a wealthy man who cons acquaintances into giving him presents with the expectation that they will be his sole heir.

    Going Out Guide Post 2010

  • For example, in Jacobean theater, this is done through the vehicle of the fall of the Roman Republic (Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Jonson's Sejanus, Shakespeare's Antony, etc).

    The goofiest scene in all the Star Wars movies 2008

  • This week loving the "worldfactory" in Johan Jonson's collobertorbital.

    swoonrocket jms 2009

  • If only Jonson's memory had produced at least one unpublished Shakespearean play!

    July 8th, 2007 2007

  • The lady he addresses apparently was better at appraising Jonson's build and complexion than at appreciating the sweetness of his verses.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • Great Regulars: Michael Drayton (1563-1631) was a friend of Ben Jonson's (1572-1637) and some think Shakespeare's, too.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • We know exactly who Jonson's many friends and patrons were, where he traveled and with whom he stayed, when and why he suffered prison sentences, and when his private library (along with several as yet unpublished works) was destroyed by fire.

    The One and Only Barton, Anne 2006

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