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Comedy of humours - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A warm welcome to the Comedy Zone, your place for humour and funny stuff on the web. Stuffed full with thousands of pages of original jokes, funny pictures, quotes and much more, there's bound to be something to make you smile every day!
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Books and Literature question: Comment on the alchemists a comedy of humours? The comedy of humours pertains to a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on one or many eccentric characters, each of whom ... The comedy of humours was one of Jonson's major innovations. The Alchemist is basically a comedy of humours even though...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Humours comedy. Humours comedy. Information about Humours comedy in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from Humours comedy)
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One of Jonson's major innovations was the "comedy of humours." A humour (as in Renaissance psychology) was a quality of mind or mood which dominated a particular character. The effect is of exaggeration, a caricature.
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The most famous example of a comedy of humours is Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour (1598). Comedies of humours are vehicles for satire, especially of materialistic society. To some extent, this genre could be compared to expressionism in that personality is allowed to shape appearance, manner, and behaviour.
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Joseph Wood Krutch contends that Restoration comedy "was derived from the union of certain elements of the old comedy of Humours with certain elements in the romantic plays of the same period.
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Comedy of Humours ... The comedy of humours owes something to earlier vernacular comedy but more to a desire to imitate the classical comedy of Plautus and Terence and to combat the vogue of ROMANTIC COMEDY. ... Low comedy is not a recognized special type of play as is the COMEDY OF HUMOURS, for example, but may be found...
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Dallas Baptist University Very good definition of Comedy of Humours. ... Edwin Wilson Online glossary from the author’s well known text The Theatre Experience that includes a definition for Comedy of Humours.
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