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Бен Джонсън (Бен Джонсон , Бенджамин Джонсън , на английски : Ben Jonson ) е английски ренесансов драматург , поет и актьор (1572 – 1637).
Отначало приятел, но впоследствие отявлен литературен критик на Шекспир . Създава така нар. комедия на хуморите в Англия, където всеки актьор въплъщава определен тип хумор (нрав или порок). Най-известни са комедиите му Всеки със своите слабости от 1599, Волпоне от 1506, Мълчаливата жена от 1608 и Алхимикът от 1610.
A Tale of a Tub , comedy (c. 1596 revised performed 1633; printed 1640)
The Isle of Dogs , comedy (1597, with Thomas Nashe; lost)
The Case is Altered , comedy (c. 1597–98; printed 1609), possibly with Henry Porter and Anthony Munday
Every Man in His Humour , comedy (performed 1598; printed 1601)
Every Man out of His Humour , comedy (performed 1599; printed 1600)
Cynthia's Revels (performed 1600; printed 1601)
The Poetaster , comedy (performed 1601; printed 1602)
Sejanus His Fall , tragedy (performed 1603; printed 1605)
Eastward Ho , comedy (performed and printed 1605), a collaboration with John Marston and George Chapman
Volpone , comedy (c. 1605–06; printed 1607)
Epicoene, or the Silent Woman , comedy (performed 1609; printed 1616)
The Alchemist , comedy (performed 1610; printed 1612)
Catiline His Conspiracy , tragedy (performed and printed 1611)
Bartholomew Fair , comedy (performed 31 October 1614; printed 1631)
The Devil is an Ass , comedy (performed 1616; printed 1631)
The Staple of News , comedy (completed by Feb. 1626; printed 1631)
The New Inn, or The Light Heart , comedy (licensed 19 January 1629; printed 1631)
The Magnetic Lady, or Humours Reconciled , comedy (licensed 12 October 1632; printed 1641)
The Sad Shepherd, pastoral (c. 1637, printed 1641), unfinished
Mortimer His Fall , history (printed 1641), a fragment
Knights J. C. Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson . Harmondsworth, 1962;
Orgel S. The Jonsonian Masque . Cambridge, 1965;
Sturmberger I. M. The Comic Elements in Ben Jonson’s Drama: V. 1 – 2 . Salzburg, 1975.
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