City comedies and satire of greed and pose built with classical craft and tough wit.
1572 – 1637 · United Kingdom | 1 book | Popular now: The Alchemist
Ben Jonson was an english playwright and poet who popularised the comedy of humours.
He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour or The Alchemist
Ben Jonson makes theater a workshop for civic sense. Fads fraud and brag meet measure and law. The jokes land because the structure is clean and the ethics are firm. Read him to see how style punctures hype and how comedy can defend standards without meanness.
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