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Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson.
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Biography EssayBy turns turbulent and weighty, scatological and refined, boisterous and delicate, Ben Jonson's works have always excited strong reactions among his readers and his playgoing audiences,...
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The English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is best known for his satiric comedies. An immensely learned man with an irascible and domineering personality, he was, next to Shakespeare, the ...
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By turns turbulent and weighty, scatalogical and refined, boisterous and delicate, Ben Jonson's works have always excited strong reactions among his readers and his playgoing audiences, just as his pe...
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Although Ben Jonson is still best known as a dramatist, his significance as a poet is hard to overestimate. His influence helped transform English verse. His "plain style" made him a crucial figure in...
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In the following essay, Seymour-Smith considers the central themes and chronicles the history of Every Man in His Humour.
The Author
Benjamin Jonson, known by his own preference and that of posterity ...
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In the following excerpt, Summers and Pebworth offer a thematic and stylistic overview of Every Man in His Humour and assert that the play is not one of Jonson's more successful comedies.
Ben J...
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In the essay below, Gottwald underscores the satirical content in the 1616 Folio version of Every Man in His Humour.
The 1616 Folio of Jonson's works is headed by the two so-called humour comed...
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In the following essay, Jackson provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of Every Man in His Humour, contending that “all Jonson's characteristic concerns, values, turns of mind and ph...
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In this essay, Lever offers an overview of the changes Jonson made to the original Quarto version of Every Man in His Humour.
Date
On the title page of the Folio (F [the first folio of Jonson's...
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In the essay that follows, Levin explores the function of the character of Doctor Clement in Every Man in His Humour and contends that the magistrate is a prototype for characters in Jonson's l...
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In the following essay, Dutton contends that the 1616 revision of Every Man in His Humour provides a valuable opportunity to study Jonson's maturation as a dramatist.
A number of major changes ...
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In the essay below, Cohen contends that “the most striking difference” between the Quarto and Folio versions of Every Man in His Humour is the setting.
In the version of Every Man in his...
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In this essay, Riddell investigates the printing history of the 1616 Folio revision of Every Man in His Humour, focusing on the reasons for the extensive cuts made to that version of the play.
The fir...
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In the essay below, Donaldson offers an autobiographical reading of Every Man in His Humour.
A central problem in the methodology of both the new and ‘old’ historicism turns on the natur...
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Ben Jonson
Ben(jamin) Jonson
Critical Essay by Martin Seymour-Smith
