An Image of the Times

An Image of the Times

An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson’s Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy

  • Author: Jørgensen, Nils-Johan
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781898823315
  • Place of publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Year of digital publication: 2015
  • Month: May
  • Pages: 220
  • Language: English
Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding – leading in the second half to some glorious insights and observations provided by author’s life experience in the world of diplomacy. It is a rich and fascinating mix of literary idiom, the theatre of the absurd and the comic element of the human condition.
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Induction
  • 1. BEN JONSON AND HIS SOURCES
    • Clasical Literary Sources
    • Medieval sources:Mystery, Morality and Interlude
    • The Great Chain and Man as Microcosm
    • Ancient Medical Theory and Renaisance Psychology
    • The Character Sketch
    • Early Humour Plays
  • 2. HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATIONIN THE COMEDIES OF BEN JONSON
    • In Humour
    • Out of Humour
    • Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair and The Magnetic Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d
  • 3. THE INFLUENCE OF JONSON ON SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTHCENTURY COMEDY
    • Richard Brome
    • James Shirley
    • Thomas Shadwell
    • Colley Cibber
    • The Sons of Ben
    • Margaret Cavendish
    • Aphra Behn
    • A gentleman of Wadham College
    • Oliver Goldsmith
    • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • 4. THE INTRUSION OF HUMOROUSCHARACTERIZATION INTO THEENGLISH NOVEL
    • Henry Fielding
    • Tobias Smollett
  • 5. THE MEANING OF THE COMIC
  • 6. NOMADIC HUMOURS
    • Where did the humours go?
    • Berlin 1900
    • Fabulous
    • Hilarious
    • An ever closer union
    • Identity mix-up
    • Chameleon
    • An exchange of notes
    • Visiting card
    • Holy See
    • Sisyphean diplomatic challenge
    • Laughter above
    • The laughing philosophers
  • 7. UNCONSCIOUS REVELATION
  • Postscript
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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