An image of the times : an irreverent companion to Ben Jonson's four humours and the art of diplomacy / by Nils-Johan Jørgensen.
Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding - leading in the second half to some glorious insights and observations provided by author's life expe...
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Kent [England] :
Renaissance Books,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Ben Jonson and his sources
- Humorous characterization in the comedies of Ben Jonson
- The influence of Jonson on seventeenth and eighteenth-century comedy
- The intrusion of humorous characterization into the English novel
- The meaning of the comic
- Nomadic humours
- Unconscious revelation.