Trivia

He was a personal friend of William Shakespeare, and wrote a sonnet praising him in the 1623 published edition of Shakespeare's complete works.

His most famous play, "Volpone", has been filmed several times in several languages, as well as used as the basis of several free adaptations, but oddly enough, it has yet to be filmed as Jonson actually wrote it - in Elizabethan blank verse; this despite the fact that Jonson was one of the most famous English dramatists of his time. It has, however, been presented as a videotaped performance on American television.

The quotation on his gravestone is ambiguous. It reads "O Rare Ben Jonson", which can be taken literally, but it can also be taken to be the Latin phrase "Orare Ben Jonson (Pray for Ben Jonson)".

He was buried standing up.