930$ ca 1902 UC-NRLF III 1 P 11 1 li 1 $B 113 ^4^ o i \ At the AVDITORIVM PLAYE-HOVSE A Pleafant Comedy TheCafeisAIterd Ben. Ionson Publiquely acted by Students in the Vniversitie for 7he Vniuemtie Settlement Saturday Maye 5eventeentb CM. DCCCC. II 162. From "Y e 01d-Tyme" Tailor Shop *>Our Store where can be had "ready-for- service" the "Mossler- hand-built" Spring Suits and Top Coats of individuality and character, made with BROAD Athletic Shoulders and snug, close- fitting neck — the equal of these gar- ments can only be had at the "highest artist tailors" — our prices at $10 to $30 Evening Dress and Tuxedo Suits of the highest character — $20 to $45 NOSSLERCO MODERN CLOTHIERS 1 21 MONROE NEA * At the AUDITORIUM PLAYE-HOUSE, Chicago NEARE TO THE BANK-SIDE Saturday Evening, the Seventeenth of Maye next, a Right Mery and Wittie Comedie Intituled The Cafe is yllterd Publiquely acted by the studentes in the Universitie The Author BEN IONSON After Plautus his Aulularia and Captivi. Wherein be exhibited the humours of Jaques the miser, Juniper the cobbler, and Peter Onion, the merrie jeasts of the pages, and the loves of Rachel and Lord Paulo. First acted manie yeares since by the children of the Black-friers. Now first re-enacted on any stage. Rare Old English Prints in Color Y E ANDERSON ART CO. Wabash Ave. and Madison St. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S COACH Braun, " Civitates Orbis Terrarum," l$y2 Frames to suit_y* modern tastes and everything that pertains to ye High Arts. For the past thirty-seven years this Com- pany has been investing money for a great many people who by reason of their occu- pation have little opportunity to become familiar with the detail work necessary to make safe investments. We have invested for such people over forty -nine million dollars without loss. If you are interested in knowing how we do this, we will be pleased to send you our printed matter upon request. 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He worked as a brick- layer, the trade of his stepfather, until he became a soldier in the Low Countries, and then returned to London, where he married and became connected with the theater. How long he worked before Every Man in His Humor made him famous we do not know, but that play was given early in the fall of 1598 with immense success by the company of which Shaks- pere was a member. At the end of September of the same year Scene: The House Boat on the Styx. (The Shades of Cardinal Richelieu and Ben Jonson are discovered in the smoking room.) Jonson. — Know'st thou, my lord, these bustling burghers by the lake turn them from their swine-slaughter and money-grubbing for a night to put a play of mine upon the boards ? Richelieu. — 'Tis little change of occupation, methinks. Jonson. — Od's wounds ! Thou art bitten deep with envy of my fame. Richelieu. — Fame forsooth ! What profit for knavish school boys to bawl some hundred lines of ranting stuff ? 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STAPLES Builders of Men's Clothing 901 CABLE BUILDING 28 Jackson Boulevard, East Chicago Exclusive British Fabrics Jonson became involved in a duel, killed his opponent and was nearly executed for it, only escaping by "benefit of clergy." From this time on he was one of the most prominent dramatists of his time and a friend of its greatest personages. In 1599 or 1600 began his literary quarrels with Marston and Dekker — in which the weapons used were satiric dramas in which the dramatists represented each other in ludicrous and humiliating characters. It is possible that the "Case Is Altered" with Onion and Juniper be- longs to this series of plays. In 1603 Jonson began to write for the entertainment of the court, and in the compositions of his fanciful masques, full of deli- cate poetry and classical allusions, this master of satire and of com- edy displayed an entirely different but equal power. From 1603- 1616 was Jonson's period of greatest success; in it all his greatest works — The Silent Woman, Volpone, Alchemist, Sejanus, Catiline — were produced; he was the "constant guest of the great and the king of good fellows." In this period the former quarrel with Marston was brought to an end, and except for a little trouble over "Eastward Ho" all was smooth sailing. In 161 3 he had traveled to France as governor of Raleigh's son, and again in 1618 he went on a pedestrian tour to Scotland, in which journey occurred the "conversations" with Drummond. In 1619 Oxford gave him a degree. Before 1623 his library was burned ; but aside from these two events he seems to have spent most of his time till 1625 without interruption in visiting his friends among the nobility and in an absolute withdrawal from composition for the public stage. In 1626 he became ill, in 1629 his play "The New Inn" met with an absolute failure, and in 1630 the masque at court failed also. Jonson and Inigo Jones (who planned the elaborate scenery for the masques) could not agree, and so Jonson lost the chance of writing for the court. In comparative poverty and unpopularity his life came to a close Aug. 6, 1637, though before the end he again had the favor of the court and the homage of a new school of authors, "The Tribe of Ben." On his tombstone in Westminster Abbey is inscribed "O rare Ben Jonson." So much in outline of the life of the big, burly man "with mountainous belly and ungracious gait," as he himself says. But to know these few dates is not to know him as he really was — com- bative always, confident that he was right, a masterful man; prob- ably as Drummond says, "a great lover and praiser of himself"; passionately kind and angry; careless either to gain or keep; a good friend and a good enemy; hitting hard, but not cherishing a A. E. BINGHAM, Prest. C. A. MARSH, Vice-Prest. G. M. WHITNEY, Secy 4. THEAS. THE MARSH & BINGHAM GO. 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The following quotations are selected as best illustrating his life and character. G. F. R. [From Drummond's Conversations with Jonson.] JONSON ON HIS OWN LIFE, EDUCATION, BIRTH, ACTIONS. His grandfather came from Carlisle and, he thought, from Anan- dale to it; he served King Henry the Eighth, and was a gentleman. His father lost all his estate under Queen Mary, having been cast in prison and forfeited; at last turned minister; so he was a minis- ter's son. He himself was posthumous born, a month after his father's decease; brought up poorly, put to school by a friend (his master Camden) ; after taken from it, and put to one other craft (I think was to be a wright or bricklayer), which he could not en- dure; then went to the low countries; but returning soon, he be- took himself to his wonted studies. In his service in the low coun- tries he had, in the face of both the camps, killed an enemy and taken opima spolia from him, and since his coming to England, being appealed to the fields, he had killed his adversary, which had hurt him in the arm, and whose sword was ten inches longer than his; for the which he was imprisoned, and almost at the gallows. Then took he his religion by trust of a priest who visited him in prison. Thereafter he was twelve years a Papist. He was Master of Arts in both the Universities, by their favor, not his study. He married a wife who was a shrew, yet honest; five years he had not bedded with her, but remained with my Lord Aulbanie. 13 HENRY W. MARSH THOMAS E. FRY HERBERT J. ULLMANN FRANK P. 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When the king came in England at that time the pest was in London, he being in the country at Sir Robert Cotton's house with old Camden he saw in a vision his eldest son, then a child and at London, appear unto him with the mark of a bloody cross on his forehead, as if it had been cut with a sword, at which amazed he prayed unto God, and in the morning he came to Mr. Camden's chamber to tell him; who persuaded him it was but one apprehen- sion of his fantasy, at which he could not be dejected; in the mean- time comes there letters from his wife of the death of that boy in the plague. He appeared to him, he said, of a manly shape, and of that growth that he thinks he shall be at the resurrection. He was delated by Sir James Murray to the king for writing something against the Scots, in a play "Eastward Ho," and volun- tarily imprisoned himself with Chapman and Marston, who had written it amongst them. The report was that they should then have had their ears and noses cut. After their delivery he ban- queted all his friends; there was Camden, Selden and others; at the midst of the feast his old mother drank to him, and showed him a paper which she had (if the sentence had taken execution) to have mixed in the prison among his drink, which was full of lustie strong poison, and that she was no churle, she told, she minded first to have drunk of it herself. He had many quarrels with Marston, beat him and took his pistol from him, wrote his Poetaster on him ; the beginning of them were, that Marston represented him in the stage. Sir W. Raleigh sent him governor with his son, anno 1613, to France. This youth being knavishly inclined, among other pas- times, caused him to be drunken, and dead drunk, so that he knew not where he was, thereafter laid him on a car, which he made to be drawn by pioneers through the streets, at every corner showing his governor stretched out, at which sport young Raleigh's mother delighted much, saying his father young was so inclined, though the father abhorred it. He can set horoscopes, but trusts not in them. Every first day of the new year he had 20 pounds sent him from the Earl of Pembroke to buy books. 15 BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS A.C.McClurg^fCo \ The largest stock of new and standard books in this country ^Technical and Scientific works of all kinds. IfOld and rare books and fine editions. If Fine correspondence papers and engraved invitations and cards. 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Other performances, doubtless a considerable number in all, have been given at other places and by various private clubs, — such as The Tavern Club of Boston, which has acted the morality of Nice Wanton, and other plays. A few of the old plays, such as Jonson's Every Man in His Humor, Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts, and Webster's The Duchess of MalU have been presented on the public stage dur- ing the past century, but of course not in the original manner. Many others are equally available and should be given. Such as Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, a rattling specimen of Elizabethan melo- drama ; Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen, full of fine declamation and romantic effects ; Day's Humor Out of Breath, sparkling, lively, romantic comedy; Webster's Love's Graduate, Fletcher's Spanish Curate, and The Chances, Randolph's Amyntas, Field's Woman is a Weather Cock, Ford's Perkin Warbeck, Dekker's Old Fortun- atus, and Heywood's Woman Killed With Kindness. 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