Every Man in His Humour - Couverture souple

Jonson, Ben

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0713643978 ISBN 13 : 9780713643978

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Jonson Ben Watson Robert N

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0713643978
• ISBN 13: 9780713643978
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176