Every Man in His Humour (New Mermaids) - Softcover

Jonson, Ben

 
9780713643978: Every Man in His Humour (New Mermaids)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0713643978 ISBN 13: 9780713643978
Verlag: Methuen Drama, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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 DoItYourself 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was an English dramatist and poet, whose reputation amongst playwrights of the period is only second only to Shakespeare's. Although Jonson found little success as an actor, his reputation as a dramatist was firmly established in 1598 with Every Man in his Humour. This sucess was followed by Every Man out of his Humour and the classically influenced satire Cynthia's Revels. Jonson wrote all of the major comedies upon which his reputation is now based during the period 1605 to 1614.

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Verlag
Methuen Drama
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0713643978
ISBN 13 
9780713643978
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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