Humors Comedy

Humors Comedy Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Criticism: Overviews
  • The Origin of the Seventeenth Century Idea of Humours
  • A Study of Humours
  • The Character of Jonson's Comedy
  • Chaucerian Comedy: The Merchant's Tale, Jonson, and Molière
• Criticism: Major Figures: Ben Jonson
  • The Comic Humours: A New Interpretation
  • The Streame of Humour
  • Beyond Psychology: The Moral Basis of Jonson's Theory of Humour Characterization
  • Every Man in His Humour: Classical and Native Elements in the First Comedy of Humours
  • The Habits and Ben Jonson's Humours
  • Ben Jonson, Theophrastus, and the Comedy of Humours
• Criticism: Major Figures: William Shakespeare
  • Jonsonian Elements in the Comic Underplot of Twelfth Night.
  • ‘A Formal Man Again’: Physiological Humours in The Comedy of Errors
  • Falstaff's False Staff: ‘Jonsonian’ Asexuality in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
  • Double Heresy and Bourgeois Humours in Windsor
• Further Reading