• Ben Jonson is an English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. • He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. • His comedies are known as 'Comedy of Humors'. • His major plays: - Every Man in His Humour (1598), - Volpone (1605), - Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), - The Alchemist (1610), - Bartholomew Fair (1614), - Every Man Out of His Humour. - The Magnetic Lady, - The Devil is an Ass etc. Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman & Encyclopedia of Britannica.