Every Man in His Humour (New Mermaids) - Softcover

Jonson, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713643978 ISBN 13: 9780713643978

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Jonson Ben Watson Robert N

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Reseña del editor:

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'.

Biografía del autor:

Robert N. Watson is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served since 1997 as Head Scholar of the Teaching Shakespeare Summer Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

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• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0713643978
• ISBN 13: 9780713643978
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176