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Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson

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Every Man in His Humour Information
1,477 words, approx. 5 pages
Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of the "humours comedy," in which each major character is dominated by an overriding humour or...


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The Independent - London
Beware the travel rep with a sense of humour Simon Calder - The Man Who Pays His Way
04/01/2000: 1,266 words, approx. 4 pages
BRITAIN, FRANCE and Germany are at war once more. Fortunately, the battles are being fought in the fields of travel and tourism, not Flanders. The war of words is over the size of national icons, the symbols that each country creates to celebrate centuries....
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The Independent - London
`To his dog, every man is Napoleon'
03/24/1995: 1,192 words, approx. 4 pages
plus je vois l'homme, plus j'aime mon chien. Any Paris visitor who has witnessed the occasionally brusque manner of its citizens might embrace Pascal's acerbic remark. Certainly one is struck by the Parisians' penchant to treat their dogs more kindly than their fellow citizens....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Gabriele Bernhard Jackson
11,177 words, approx. 37 pages
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 phrase, dramatic techniques, structural designs—all are here ready to be selected, developed, recombined.”
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Critical Essay by Martin Seymour-Smith
8,688 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Seymour-Smith considers the central themes and chronicles the history of Every Man in His Humour.
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Critical Essay by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth
7,972 words, approx. 27 pages
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.
 


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Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson

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