Humors Comedy - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Baum, Helena Watts. The Satiric and the Didactic in Ben Jonson's Comedy. New York: Russell & Russell, 1971, 192 p.

Study of the development of Jonson's comedy from The Case is Altered to Volpone, including consideration of his theory of humors comedy.

Beaurline, L. A. Jonson and Elizabethan Comedy. San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library, 1978, 351 p.

Analysis of the rhetoric of Jonson's comedies that includes discussion of humors comedy.

Danson, Lawrence. “Jonsonian Comedy and the Discovery of the Social Self.” PMLA 99, no. 2 (March 1984): 179-93.

Compares the sociological and psychological versions of the self in Jonson's comedies, offering comments on Jonson's humors comedy.

Green, William. “Humours Characters and Attributive Names in Shakespeare's Plays.” Names: Journal of the American Name Society 20, no 3...

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