Image of the times : an irreverent companion to Ben Jonson's four humours and the art of diplomacy / by Nils-Johan Jørgensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jørgensen, Nil-Johan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637--Criticism and interpretation.

Jonson, Ben.

Comedies of humours.

Arts and diplomacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Folkestone : Renaissance Books, 2015.

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.

Contents:

Ben Jonson and his sources

Humorous characterization in the comedies of Ben Jonson

The influence of Jonson on seventeenth and eighteenth-century comedy

The intrusion of humorous characterization into the English novel

The meaning of the comic

Nomadic humours

Unconscious revelation.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-003-69076-9

1-04-077250-1

1-898823-31-6

9781003690764

OCLC:

918855596