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Every Man Out of His Humour

by Ben Jonson

2001·418 pages·en
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Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN
9780719015588

About this book

Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune. This first critical edition of the play conveys early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display through historical contexts. The book offers an intriguing look at the course of urban comedy, and a wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of the Elizabethan period.

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