| Every Man in His Humour Contributor(s): Jonson, Ben (Author), Watson, Robert N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0713643978 ISBN-13: 9780713643978 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.3 |
| Series: New Mermaids |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.03" W x 7.84" (0.42 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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'. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jonson, Ben: - Ben Jonson contributed to Every Man Out of His Humour; Bartholomew Fair; The Staple of News; Volpone; and Sejanus, His Fall; all from Manchester University Press. |