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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Induction -- Chapter 1: BEN JONSON AND HIS SOURCES -- Classical literary sources (Decorum, the comedies of Plautus and Terence, the Ridiculous) -- Medieval Sources: Mystery, Morality and Interlude -- The Great Chain and Man as Microcosm -- Ancient medical theory and Renaissance psychology -- The character sketch -- Early Humour plays (George Chapman, Henry Porter) -- Chapter 2: HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION IN THE COMEDIES OF BEN JONSON -- In humour -- Out of humour -- Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair -- Chapter 3: THE INFLUENCE OF JONSON ON SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTHCENTURY COMEDY -- Richard Brome -- James Shirley -- Thomas Shadwell -- Colley Cibber -- The Sons of Ben -- Margareth Cavendish -- Aphra Behn -- James Miller -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Chapter 4: THE INTRUSION OF HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION INTO THE ENGLISH NOVEL -- Henry Fielding -- Tobias Smollett -- Chapter 5: THE MEANING OF THE COMIC -- Chapter 6: NOMADIC HUMOURS -- Introduction -- Where did the humours go -- Berlin 1900 -- Fabulous -- Hilarious -- An ever-closer union -- Identity mix-up -- Chameleon -- An exchange of notes -- Visiting card -- Holy See -- Sisyphean diplomatic challenge -- Laughter above -- The laughing philosopher -- Chapter 7: UNCONSCIOUS REVELATION -- Postscript -- Index |
| Summary |
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 experience in the world of diplomacy. It is a rich and fascinating mix of literary idiom, the theatre of the absurd and the comic element of the human condition |
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diplomatic dilemmas |
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history-literature-diplomacy |
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humour |
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literary idiom |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) |
| Subject |
Comedies of humours.
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Jonson, Ben, -- 1573?-1637 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Jonson, Ben, -- 1573?-1637 -- Influence
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays.
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Comedies of humours
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781898823315 |
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1898823316 |
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