The complete online text of Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems by Ben Jonson.

The English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is best known for his satiric comedies. An immensely learned man with an irascible and domineering personality, he was, next to Shakespeare, the greatest dramatic genius of the English Renaissance. B...

By turns turbulent and weighty, scatological and refined, boisterous and delicate, Ben Jonson's works have always excited strong reactions among his readers and his playgoing audiences, just as his personality strongly impressed or offended his contempor...

By turns turbulent and weighty, scatalogical and refined, boisterous and delicate, Ben Jonson's works have always excited strong reactions among his readers and his playgoing audiences, just as his personality strongly impressed or offended his contempor...

1. Across the urban sky the slow bass sound of jets, invisibly latticed, so many vibrating strings. They are this century's music, a soft tearing of air, a music of excoriation, a larger breathing 2. than us all. In grey...

Danish researchers say they've discovered that men, on average, have about 4 billion more brain cells than women. But they are stumped as to what men do with them. The researchers, led by Dr. Bente Pakkenberg, a female neurologist at Kommune Hospital...