 | Thomas Northcote Toller - 1900 - 316 lapas
...a humour. It was in this sense that the word was used by Ben Jonson in the titles to his two plays, Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour, and the adjective humorous meant that a person was marked by this kind of humour, as in the title to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 432 lapas
...Goldsmith, he traveled on the Continent, serving at one time in Flanders as a soldier. His best plays are Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour. These are distinctly inferior to Shakespeare's dramas from the very fact indicated in the titles ;... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1903 - 408 lapas
...applied to the whole, or the separate elements, of a man's character ; the usage of Ben Jonson, with his Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour, at once reflected and intensified the tendency to apply the term ' humours ' to peculiarities of individual... | |
 | Elmer Edgar Stoll - 1905 - 236 lapas
...of the homely and lively master of his appren1 There were citizen plays before this, of course, as Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour, but lacking the spirit of partisanship. — I do not wish to exaggerate the partisanship of the city,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 232 lapas
...Jonson's fondness for painting ' humours ' or comic types. Witness the titles of his earlier plays, Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour. If the allusion has been correctly identified, Hamlet may be the play in which Shakespeare ' put down... | |
 | William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - 1905 - 180 lapas
...eccentricities, fads. Prol. 35. Cf. Love's Labour Lost, III. i. 23 ; as also Ben Jonson's two plays, Every Man in His Humour and Every Man out of His Humour. IMPS (sub.), comrades ; 1II. iv. 88. Early editions read ' mips.' JACK (sub.), a term of contempt.... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1907 - 404 lapas
...applied to the whole, or the separate elements, of a man's character ; the usage of Ben Jonson, with his Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour, at once reflected and intensified the tendency to apply the term ' humours ' to peculiarities of individual... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 430 lapas
...wider sense than now, eg 'prevailing temper, disposition.' Compare the titles of Ben Jonson's comedies, Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour. Indirection, II. i. 60, 'indirect means'; implying often 'dishonest practice, unfair dealing.' Cf.... | |
 | Charles Shirley Potts - 1910 - 644 lapas
...to symbolism, 315. ENGLISH ELEMENTS IN JONSON'S EARLY COMEDY CHAPTER I JONSON'S LITERARY IDEALS When Jonson's Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour appeared upon the stage in 1598 and 1599, a new era in the Elizabethan drama opened. Chapman, Dekker,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 430 lapas
...acting, and prominence as a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Company. His name appears in the casts of Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour, published in Jonson's folio of l6l6; but we do not know what parts he sustained either in these plays... | |
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Every Man out of his Humour," usurped that dictatorship, in the Literary Republic, which he so sturdily and invariably maintained, though long and hardily disputed. 
