# Ben Jonson — Essays character guide

> Ben Jonson in Essays by Henry David Thoreau.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Jonson

**First appearance:** 0022-sir-walter-raleigh

## Who they are

Elizabethan playwright and poet; contemporary of Shakespeare.

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