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Although he was born in Westminster, Jonson claimed his family was of Border descent, and this may be confirmed by the fact that his coat of arms bears three spindleA spindle (sometimes called a drop spindle is a wooden spike weighted at one end with a wheel and an optional hook at the other end. It is used for spinning wool and other fibres into thread. Spindles or parts of them have been found in very, very old arcs or rhombiIn geometry, a rhombus (also known as a rhomb is a parallelogram in which all of the sides are of equal length. More colloquially it may be described as a diamond or lozenge shape. In any rhombus, opposite sides will be parallel. Thus, the rhombus is a sp, a device shared by a Border family, the Johnstones of AnnandaleThe name Annandale refers firstly to Annandale, Scotland in the valley of the River Annan. Annandale also names some places in the United States of America: Annandale, Minnesota Annandale, New Jersey Annandale, Virginia in Canada: Annandale, Prince Edward. His father died a month before Ben's birth, and his mother remarried two years later, to a master bricklayer. Jonson attended school in St. Martin's Lane , and was later sent to Westminster SchoolWestminster School (in full, The Royal College of St. Peter at Westminster but almost always referred to as Westminster School or even just Westminster for short) is an ancient English public school, located by Westminster Abbey in Westminster, in central, where one of his teachers was William CamdenWilliam Camden (May 2, 1551 November 9, 1623) was an English antiquarian and historian. He wrote the first topographical survey of Britain and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I. Camden was born in London. His father, Sampso. On leaving, Jonson is said to have gone on to the University of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is the second-oldest academic institution in the English-speaking world (after Oxford). According to legend, the University was founded in 1209 by scholars escaping Oxford after a fight with locals. Cambridge and the University. Jonson himself said that he did not go to university, but was put to a trade immediately. He soon had enough of the trade, probably bricklaying, and spent some time in the Low CountriesThe Low Countries are the countries on low-lying land around the delta of the Rhine and Meuse rivers—usually used in modern context to mean the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (an alternate modern term, more often used today, is Benelux). They roughly as a soldier.
Ben Jonson married some time before 1592. The registers of St Martin's Church state that his eldest daughter Mary died in November, 1593, when she was only six months old. His eldest son Benjamin died of the plague ten years later (Jonson's poem On My First Sonne [1] was written shortly after), and a second Benjamin died in 1635. For five years somewhere in this period, Jonson lived separate from his wife, enjoying instead the hospitality of Lord Aubigny.
By the summer of 1597, Jonson had a fixed engagement in the Lord Admiral's acting company, then performing under Philip Henslowe's management at The Rose.
By this time, Jonson had begun to write original plays for the Lord Admiral's Men; and in 1598 he was mentioned by Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia as one of "the best for tragedy". None of his early tragedies survive, however. An undated comedy, The Case is Altered, may be his earliest surviving play.
In 1597 he was imprisoned for his collaboration in writing the play The Isle of Dogs. Copies of the play were destroyed, so the exact nature of the offense is unknown. It was the first of several run-ins with the authorities.
In 1598, Jonson produced his first great success, Every Man in his Humour . William Shakespeare was among the first cast. This play was followed the next year by Every Man Out of His Humour , a pedantic attempt to imitate Aristophanes that was not a stage success.
Before the year 1598 was out, Jonson found himself back in prison and in danger of hanging. In a duel, on September 22 in Hogsden Fields, he had killed an actor of Henslowe's company named Gabriel Spenser. In prison Jonson was visited by a Roman Catholic priest, and the result was his conversion to Catholicism, to which he adhered for twelve years. He escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy, thus forfeiting his property and being branded on his left thumb. Neither the affair or his Catholic conversion seem to have negatively affected Jonson's reputation, as he was back again at work for Henslowe within months.
In 1601, Jonson was employed by Henslowe to revise Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy - hackwork which suggests his financial difficulties during this period.
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