This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...and English per-, sonage far the comedy of manners. Both are so set; and upon the republication of Every Man in his Humour, in his folio of 1616, he carefully revised that comedy so as to transfer the scene from Venice to London, a change materially for the better. To this English practice the poet adhered to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...and English per-, sonage far the comedy of manners. Both are so set; and upon the republication of Every Man in his Humour, in his folio of 1616, he carefully revised that comedy so as to transfer the scene from Venice to London, a change materially for the better. To this English practice the poet adhered to his last great comedy the Gargantuan Bartholomew Fair which gives us a conception of the Elizabethan forerunner of a London bankholiday, a picture large, gross, humorous, coarse and boisterous, but not unworthy the pen of this intimate knower and satirist of the life about him. Jonson wrote other plays; but they belong neither to the time nor to the full-flowing genius that begot these master comedies. Among dramatists, his contemporaries, none so resembled Jonson in his tastes and theories as his friend, George Chapman, the famous translator of Homer. Chapman was a much older man than Jonson, born as far back as 1559. And he appears to have taken up the drama, at first at least, as no very serious addition to his more important literary work as a translator and general poet. He must have been quite thirty-five years of age when he produced his first comedies, although it is a moot question as to whether he may not, after all, have preceded Jonson in the employment of the word " humour" in the Jonsonian sense, if not in the actual writing of comedies, more or less of the type.7 The comedies of Chapman range from several dubious entries and allusions of Henslowe, as early as 595 to the romantic comedies The Gentleman Usher and Monsieur D'Olive, both printed in 1606. All the others are comedies of manners almost strictly at times of " humours "; 7 Cf. Henstowe's mention of a "comedy of humours," in May, 1597, ed. Greg, p. 52 and elsewhere and...
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