The Project Gutenberg EBook of Every Man In His Humor, by Ben Jonson. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.doorway.ru(19). Only when men are shorn of their illusions can they see the rightness of the world. In Every Man in His Humour Jonson develops an elaborate theory of humour, comedy, and the function of poetry in society. Jonson draws on the tradition of classical comedy but expands the terms of that tradition; the function of the poet in society is parallel to that of God in the cosmos: creator, legislator, and judge. Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson. First Edition, hardcover, pages, ISBN: Very rare, valuable First Edition. The Gutenberg Book of Every Man In His Humor, by Ben Jonson. This Book is for the use of anyone anywhere. An excellent collectible copy of this great work of literature by Ben Jonson.
Every Man in His Humour is a comedy by the English playwright, Ben Jonson, who is particularly famous for his www.doorway.ru the play, every major character is defined by an over-riding obsession, known as a humour. Humours were four bodily fluids--black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood--which formed the basis of early sytems of medicine. Every Man in His Humour, comic drama in five acts that established the reputation of Ben Jonson, performed in London by the Lord Chamberlain's Men in and revised sometime before its publication in the folio edition of With its galleries of grotesques, its scornful detachment, and its rather academic effect, the play introduced to the English stage a vigorous and direct anatomizing. Every Man In His Humour as a whole is, among other things a stylization of such a babble: the idiolects of gallant, soldier, bourgeois, countryman, street seller, intercut anarchically as the farce gathers momentum (Womack, Ben Jonson, 80).
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Every Man In His Humor, by Ben Jonson. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.doorway.ru Jonson, Ben, ? Title: Every Man in His Humor Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: English drama (Comedy) Subject: London (England) -- Drama Category: Text: EBook-No. Release Date: Mar 1, Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: downloads in the last 30 days. Price: $ Only when men are shorn of their illusions can they see the rightness of the world. In Every Man in His Humour Jonson develops an elaborate theory of humour, comedy, and the function of poetry in society. Jonson draws on the tradition of classical comedy but expands the terms of that tradition; the function of the poet in society is parallel to that of God in the cosmos: creator, legislator, and judge.
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