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Every Man in His Humour (Paperback, New Ed)
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Every Man in His Humour (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: New Mermaids
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Like all of Jonson's city comedies, this play - here given in the
1616 Folio version, in which Jonson rewrote and set it in England,
not Italy - is a kind of dramatised Do-It-Yourself kit on how to
bluff one's way in Elizabethan London. Although Roman New Comedy,
in which a crafty slave helps a wild youngster to marry the girl of
his choice against his father's wishes, supplies Jonson with his
basic plot, the world that he presents here is thoroughly
contemporary and mundane. The characters' 'humours' - their driving
obsessions - may vary, but all of them strive to represent
something greater, nobler, cleverer than their real selves. The
joke of the play, this editor suggests, is 'finally on all of us
who unconsciously equate the universe with a story in which we play
the hero'.
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