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    Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of "humours comedy", in which each major...
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    Every Man out of His Humour (also spelled Humor in some early editions) is a satirical comedy play written by English playwright Ben Jonson, acted in...
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    his every decision by his desire to "catch on" to the manners of the city gallant. In his Induction to Every Man out of His Humour (1599). Jonson explains...
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  • earliest printed reference to the original proverb appears in the 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour, written by the English playwright Ben Jonson: Helter...
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    Ben Jonson (section His work)
    comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606)...
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    murder. Barrose's story is dramatized by playwright Ben Jonson in Every Man in His Humour. July 12 – After fording the Rio Grande near what are now the...
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    Murray Melvin (category Accidental deaths in England)
    with Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour in which he played Brainworm. Rehearsals then started for Stephen Lewis's Sparrows Can't Sing in which Melvin played...
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  • re-works many of the features of city comedy within a tragic drama. Every Man in his Humour (1598), by Ben Jonson The Family of Love (c. 1602), by Thomas Middleton...
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    Satire (redirect from Satirical Humour)
    Retrieved August 3, 2020. Jonson, Ben; Miola, Robert S. (2000). Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719015656...
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    Jonson also makes reference to the ballad in his play Every Man in His Humour (1598) and William Davenant in The Wits (1634). The oldest version of the...
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    reference to the character of Justice Shallow in Ben Jonson's Every Man out of His Humour, which was first acted in 1599, indicating the play was well enough...
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    melancholy. Carlo Buffone: So is the dog's, just. — Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour A person's complexion is a biological trait. The family of biological...
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    of actors in Every Man in His Humour written by Ben Jonson. He is also listed among the actors in Jonson's Sejanus His Fall. Also by 1598, his name began...
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  • sometimes, as in the preface to the Rudens, Plautus rises to the height of his genius in his adroit and romantic prologues, usually placed in the mouths...
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    John Falstaff (category Characters in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
    a common butt of veiled satire in Elizabethan popular literature; he figures in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour and may have been part of the reason...
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    Nathaniel Parker (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    perhaps his best-known role. His co-star was Sharon Small as his assistant, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. When the series premiered on PBS in 2002,...
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  • London's Rose Theatre. c. July/September – Ben Jonson's comedy of humours Every Man in His Humour is probably first performed, by the Lord Chamberlain's Men...
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    without complaint". In 1845, Charles Dickens produced the amateur theatrical Every Man in his Humour for the benefit of Leigh Hunt. In a subsequent performance...
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    William Shakespeare (category Burials in Warwickshire)
    in his own and other plays after his success as a playwright. The 1616 edition of Ben Jonson's Works names him on the cast lists for Every Man in His...
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    Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham (category History of Catholicism in the United Kingdom)
    Elizabethan satires such as Thomas Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, and may have been the model of Shakespeare's Falstaff, who was...
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  • from his last will. In addition to Every Man in His Humour (1598) and Every Man Out of His Humour (1599), Condell is known to have performed in four more...
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    Benwell. When Grant married for the third time in 1971, with his On the Buses co-star Stephen Lewis as Best Man, there were huge crowds outside the register...
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    Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, which was produced in the middle of 1598; they also staged the thematic sequel, Every Man Out of His Humour, the next...
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  • Anonymous (film) (category Films set in London)
    referred to by the name "Every Man". Jonson did write plays called Every Man in His Humour and Every Man Out of His Humour. The fragments of dialogue...
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  • perform Shakespeare's Henry V at court. January 8 – Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour is performed at court by the King's Men. January – The King's...
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    written in the style of "humours comedy" which Ben Jonson later used in Every Man in His Humour and Every Man Out of His Humour. With The Widow's Tears...
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  • performed in Ben Jonson's Sejanus and Every Man in His Humour (in both cases, alongside Shakespeare). A Jacobean inscription in the 1616 Jonson folio lists him...
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  • Parody (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from September 2012)
    usage of the word parody in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is in Ben Jonson, in Every Man in His Humour in 1598: "A Parodie, a parodie...
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    Bobadil Hooper (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
    nickname is said to have come from a character in Ben Jonson's play Every Man in His Humour. "Bob Hooper - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 10 December...
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    Cleopatra. At the RSC's Swan Theatre he directed Ben Jonson's comedies Every Man in His Humour with Simon Russell Beale, Henry Goodman and Pete Postlethwaite...
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