An Image of the Times : : An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson’s Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy / / Nils-Johan Jørgensen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Jørgensen, Nils-Johan,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781898823315; 9783110662788; 9783111023762
• DOI: 10.1515/9781898823315?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 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.