Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy
Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy

Author: Jonathan Goossen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1351658689

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Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy relates new understandings of Aristotle’s dramatic theory to the comedy of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Typically, scholars of Renaissance drama have treated Aristotle’s theory only as a possible historical influence on Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s drama, focusing primarily on their tragedies. Yet recent classical scholarship has undone important misconceptions about Aristotle’s Poetics held by early modern commentators and fleshed out the theory of comedy latent within it. By first synthesizing these developments and then treating them as an interpretive theory, rather than simply an historical influence, this book demonstrates a remarkable consonance between Aristotelian principles of plot and its emotional effect, on the one hand, and the comedy of Shakespeare and Jonson, on the other. In doing so, it also reveals surprising similarities between these seemingly divergent dramatists.

Elizabethan Humours and the Comedy of Ben Jonson, Being the Book of the Play Every Man in His Humour, 1598
Elizabethan Humours and the Comedy of Ben Jonson, Being the Book of the Play Every Man in His Humour, 1598

Author: Tomoye Press Bkp Cu-Banc

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781354296738

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Every Man in his Humor
Every Man in his Humor

Author: Ben Jonson

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-05-23

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 3732694666

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Elizabethan Humours and the Comedy of Ben Jonson
Elizabethan Humours and the Comedy of Ben Jonson

Author:

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Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781332054275

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Excerpt from Elizabethan Humours and the Comedy of Ben Jonson: Being the Book of the Play "Every Man in His Humour," 1598 Never again did [Jonson's] genius, his industry, his conscience and his taste unite in the triumphant presentation of a work so faultless, so satisfactory, so absolute in achievement, and so free from blemish or defect. Moliere himself has no character more exquisitely and spontaneously successful than the immortal and inimitable Bobadil: and even Bobadil is not unworthily surrounded and supported by the other graver or lighter characters of this magnificent and perfect comedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.