THE DEVIL ASS

C. THE DEVIL IS AN ASS

Jonson’s characteristic conception of comedy as a vehicle for the study of ‘humors’ passed in Every Man out of his Humor into caricature, and in Cynthia’s Revels and Poetaster into allegory. The process was perfectly natural. In the humor study each character is represented as absorbed by a single vice or folly. In the allegorical treatment the abstraction is the starting-point, and the human element the means of interpretation. Either type of drama, by a shifting of emphasis, may readily pass over into the other. The failure of Cynthia’s Revels, in spite of the poet’s arrogant boast at its close, had an important effect upon his development, and the plays of Jonson’s middle period, from Sejanus to The Devil is an Ass, show more restraint in the handling of character, as well as far greater care in construction. The figures are typical rather than allegorical, and the plot in general centres about certain definite objects of satire. Both plot and characterization are more closely unified.

 

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Title: The Devil is an Ass

Author: Ben Jonson

Editor: William Savage Johnson
        Albert S. Cook

Release Date: October 7, 2015 [EBook #50150]

Language: English 

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 Thomas Fuller cuenta que Jonson y Shakespeare se enfrascaban en eternas discusiones en la Mermaid's Tavern,
 e imagina conversaciones en las que Shakespeare enredaría al más 
cultivado pero más inflamable Jonson. De que ambos hombres se conocían 
personalmente no cabe la menor duda, no solamente debido al tono de las 
referencias que Jonson hacia sobre Shakespeare, sino porque la compañía 
de Shakespeare produjo algunas de las obras de Jonson, y por lo menos en
 una de ellas, Every Man in his Humour, Shakespeare actuó. Sin 
embargo, es imposible decidir cual era su nivel de amistad, y su posible
 amistad no puede verificarse con lo que sabemos actualmente. 

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