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1 online resource |
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Ben Jonson and his sources -- Humorous characterization in the comedies of Ben Jonson -- The influence of Jonson on seventeenth and eighteenth-century comedy -- The intrusion of humorous characterization into the English novel -- The meaning of the comic -- Nomadic humours -- Unconscious revelation |
| Summary |
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 |
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diplomatic dilemmas |
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history-literature-diplomacy |
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humour |
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literary idiom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Influence
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 fast |
| Subject |
Comedies of humours.
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Arts and diplomacy.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Diplomacy.
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Arts and diplomacy
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Comedies of humours
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781898823315 |
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1898823316 |
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