A well-respected poet and playwright named Ben Jonson- who wrote a poem introduction for the First folio in honor of Shakespeare is linked to National identity because Jonson was an Englishman; however while Jonson had been more wealthy and he was more well-known, prosperous poet and playwright, highly educated and had studied English in depth for many years- Shakespeare wasn't as recognized and he had contrastingly lower education, the reasons behind this could have been because Jonson was more upper class; upper class were seen as more superior than the middle class. ...

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