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...

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...

printed reference to the original proverb appears in the 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour, written by the English playwright Ben Jonson: Helter skelter,...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Retrieved August 3, 2020. Jonson, Ben; Miola, Robert S. (2000). Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719015656...

series was the peak of his career; 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ben Jonson. No extant copies of the play are known. The play is mentioned in Philip Henslowe's diary for August 1598. On 18 August, the authors were paid...

Nicholson and C. H. Herford, three volumes (Volume I) Every Man in His Humour - Every Man out of His Humour - The Poetaster (Volume II) Bartholomew Fair - Cynthia's...

in amateur productions at Fanny Kelly's Royalty Theatre at number 73–74. In 1845 he starred in an adaptation of Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour,...

attempt at a comedy of humours, a type of play he would develop further in Every Man in His Humour (1598) and Every Man out of His Humour (1599). E. K. Chambers...

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...

prominence in the works of Ben Jonson – most notably in Every Man in His Humour (1598) and Every Man Out of His Humour (1599), but through his later works...

cloak, ruff, and hat" in The Alchemist (1610), and quotes from the play in Every Man in His Humour (1598), Act I, scene iv. In Satiromastix (1601), Thomas...

Costard in Love's Labours Lost, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, and Cob in Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour...