Larger-than-life characters collide when Brainworm, a clever servant, works to foil the plans of his master, Knowell, through a series of deceptions and disguises that take him all...
In his play Every Man Out of His Humour (1599), Jonson explains that the system of humours governing the body may by metaphor be applied to the general disposition, so that a pecul...
Every Man in His Humour, comic drama in five acts that established the reputation of Ben Jonson, performed in London by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in 1598 and revised sometime befo...