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... Jonsonian satiric humours and Jacobean city comedy , and his plain , unmetaphoric verse , were influential on the ... Jonson in the characters of Sir Giles Overreach and his clerk Marrall , modelled on Volpone and Mosca . In contrast to ...
... Jonsonian satiric humours and Jacobean city comedy , and his plain , unmetaphoric verse , were influential on the ... Jonson in the characters of Sir Giles Overreach and his clerk Marrall , modelled on Volpone and Mosca . In contrast to ...
Page 119
... Jonsonian humours and social satire blend with Fletcherian romance , wit and love battles and , in the sub- plots , a touch of Marston's city comedies , to provide elements that later went into Restoration comedy - battles of repartee ...
... Jonsonian humours and social satire blend with Fletcherian romance , wit and love battles and , in the sub- plots , a touch of Marston's city comedies , to provide elements that later went into Restoration comedy - battles of repartee ...
Page 122
... Jonson's Roman tragedies ; the effect is similar to a pageant . His comedy Tottenham Court ( 1633 ) ridicules the libertines and attacks the sexual double standard . Thomas May ( 1595-1650 ) , another Jonsonian , wrote plays and in 1627 ...
... Jonson's Roman tragedies ; the effect is similar to a pageant . His comedy Tottenham Court ( 1633 ) ridicules the libertines and attacks the sexual double standard . Thomas May ( 1595-1650 ) , another Jonsonian , wrote plays and in 1627 ...
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