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How did Ben Jonson begin his career?

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After a brief term at bricklaying his stepfather's trade and after military service in Flanders he began working for Philip Henslowe as an actor and playwright. In 1598 he was tried for killing another actor in a duel but escaped execution by claiming right of clergy (that he could read and write).

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