# Ben Jonson — Representative Men character guide

> Ben Jonson in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ben Jonson, Jonson

**First appearance:** 0005-v-shakespeare-or-the-poet

## Who they are

English playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare, mentioned in literary context.

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