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Every Man in His Humor

Ben Jonson

  • Drama
  • Book language: English
  • 217 pages

Every Man in His Humour is an early modern comedy by Ben Jonson, first staged in the late 1590s. It is a comedy of humours, built around characters whose temperaments and obsessions drive the action and the satire. Its witty dialogue and lively stagecraft make it rewarding for listeners interested in Elizabethan drama beyond Shakespeare.

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EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOR
(The Anglicized Edition)
By Ben Jonson
Contents
INTRODUCTION
EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR
GLOSSARY
INTRODUCTION
THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare,
the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of
verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of
all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of
English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his

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