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 (September 1972): 157-65.

Examines Shakespeare's contribution to the humors comedy genre and discusses his linking of names and humors characterization in Twelfth Night and As You Like It.

McDonald, Russ. Shakespeare and Jonson/Jonson and Shakespeare. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988, 239 p.

Compares the works of the two dramatists; includes discussions of Jonson's theory of humors comedy and Shakespeare's use of the genre.