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The massacre of the Charlie Hebdo staff can be considered as another moment in a centuries-old struggle between an artist’s right to laugh at zealots (and do something about it) and the zealot’s right to be offended by the actions of the artist (and do something about it).

Jan. 16, 2015

Shakespeare: An article in the March 16 Opinion section about how William Shakespeare might view the 2008 presidential race stated that Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd were murdered.

March 23, 2008

You had to smile, learning that actor-playwright Gregory Mortensen had adapted Ben Jonson’s Renaissance London comedy, “The Alchemist,” into a Gold Rush-era San Francisco comedy called “The Scoundrel.”

Oct. 14, 1989

Gregory Mortensen, the playwright, cast a pitying eye on Gregory Mortensen, the actor.

Oct. 6, 1989

You had to smile, learning that actor-playwright Gregory Mortensen had adapted Ben Jonson’s Renaissance London comedy, “The Alchemist,” into a Gold Rush-era San Francisco comedy called “The Scoundrel.”

Oct. 13, 1989

Jan. 16, 2015

The Grove Shakespeare Festival has received a $5,000 grant from Wells Fargo Bank to sponsor Gregory Mortensen’s “The Scoundrel,” an updated rewrite of Ben Jonson’s Elizabethan farce, “The Alchemist.”

Sept. 20, 1989

Ben Jonson, famous British 17th Century poet and dramatist, made a prophetic statement when he wrote: “Truth is the trial of itself, And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne’er so much.”

Oct. 16, 1988

Jonas A. Barish, 76, an expert on Shakespeare and the poet Ben Jonson.

April 8, 1998

In my review of Tag Gallagher’s biography of John Ford (Book Review, March 16), my quotation from John Milton’s “L’Allegro” was misattributed to Ben Jonson, not by me, but by some Times editor who clearly needs to go back and reaudit English Lit I.

March 30, 1986