Every Man in His Humour (Paperback, New Ed)

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'.

General

Imprint:	Methuen Drama
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Mermaids
Release date:	July 1998
First published:	July 1998
Authors:	Ben Jonson
Editors:	Robert N Watson
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	160
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7136-4397-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-7136-4397-8
Barcode:	9780713643978

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