{"product_id":"an-image-of-the-times-an-irreverent-companion-to-ben-jonson-s-four-humours-and-the-art-of-diplomacy-9781898823179","title":"An Image of the Times: An Irreverent Companion to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: BEN JONSON AND HIS SOURCES\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical literary sources (Decorum, the comedies of Plautus and Terence, the Ridiculous)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedieval Sources: the Morality Play and the Interludes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Chain and Man as Microcosm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAncient medical theory and Renaissance psychology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe character sketch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Humour plays\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(George Chapman, Henry Porter)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION IN THE COMEDIES OF BEN JONSON\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn humour\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOut of humour\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBartholomew Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: THE INFLUENCE OF JONSON ON SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COMEDY\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Brome\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Shirley\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Shadwell\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColley Cibber\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sons of Ben\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargareth Cavendish\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAphra Behn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Miller\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOliver Goldsmith\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard Brinsley Sheridan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: THE INTRUSION OF HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION INTO THE ENGLISH NOVEL\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry Fielding\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTobias Smollett\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: THE MEANING OF THE COMIC\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: NOMADIC HUMOURS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere did the humours go\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBerlin 1900\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFabulous\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHilarious\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn ever-closer union\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentity mix-up\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChameleon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn exchange of notes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVisiting card\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoly See\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSisyphean diplomatic challenge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaughter above\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe laughing philosopher\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: UNCONSCIOUS REVELATION\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostscript\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Global Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043130212695,"sku":"9781898823179","price":30.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-image-of-the-times-an-irreverent-companion-to-ben-jonson-s-four-humours-and-the-art-of-diplomacy-9781898823179","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}