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Every Man Out of His Humour
Ben Jonson
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Every Man Out of His Humour followed Jonson's play Every Man In His Humour. "This play as a fabric of plot is a very slight affair; but as a satirical picture of the manners of the time, proceeding by means of vivid caricature, couched in witty and brilliant dialogue and sustained by that righteous indignation which must lie at the heart of all true satire — as a realisation, in short, of the classical ideal of comedy — there had been nothing like Jonson's comedy since the days of Aristophanes.... What Jonson really did, was to raise the dramatic lampoon to an art, and make out of a casual burlesque and bit of mimicry a dramatic satire of literary pretensions and permanency.
Every Man Out of His Humour followed Jonson's play Every Man In His Humour. "This play as a fabric of plot is a very slight affair; but as a satirical picture of the manners of the time, proceeding by means of vivid caricature, couched in witty and brilliant dialogue and sustained by that righteous indignation which must lie at the heart of all true satire — as a realisation, in short, of the classical ideal of comedy — there had been nothing like Jonson's comedy since the days of Aristophanes.... What Jonson really did, was to raise the dramatic lampoon to an art, and make out of a casual burlesque and bit of mimicry a dramatic satire of literary pretensions and permanency.
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Community Reviews
Good Lord but it's long! Two commentators explain everything, just in case the audience missed it the first time, and such plot as there is rambles all over the place. The best bits are funny and show what Ben will go on to achieve, but it's not exactly a surprise that it was a flop in 1599.
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Although admittedly long and occasionally obscure, I will defend this play for being genuinely funny even in 2019, if solely for the joy of watching the character of Fungoso rant and rail as he desperately mires himself in debt attempting to keep up with Brisk’s rapidly changing, foppish outfits,
The poor dog