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...victim recrudescent. We are not greatly gratified at the final revelation, since it has been intimated that the notices are everywhere. Mr. Rogers' personages are more amusing in their names and their slang than in their craft. The German tag with the questioning accent is a high point of humour. It is to be feared, however, that to the reviewer of "Man and Superman" it might seem like "one of the harmless stupidities with which Shaw covers his essentially undramatic plot...

Author: By H. L. Gray ., | Title: NOTABLE POEMS IN ADVOCATE | 3/27/1913 | See Source »

MERMAID CLUB.- Meeting tonight, Friday, Dec. 6, in Hastings 35, at 8 o'clock. All members of English 14 are invited. Marlowe's "Edward II" and Jonson's "Every Man in His Humour" will be read and discussed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 12/6/1895 | See Source »

...monthly for February is more than usually devoted to fiction. The number opens, however, with a somewhat lengthy consideration of "The Humour of Caucer," by J. B. Holmes, prolonged to such an extent that the interest of the reader is in danger of flagging before the end is reached. The articles which follow will be more pleasing to the average mind,- a poem called "Louie Rae," by Bliss Carman, and three stories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 3/12/1894 | See Source »

...laughable. Ben Jonson was a humourist but he was especially a caricaturist and must be criticised as such. Caricature is a legitimate method of getting effect by overloading. This method is especially evident in the three following plays: "Cynthia's Revels," "The Poetaster" and "Every Man out of his Humour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Moulton's Lecture. | 1/6/1891 | See Source »

...Moulton then proceeded to illustrate by reciting and condensing parts of "Every Man out of his Humour," how each labled humour had its innings and then was put out. First he gave Jonson's Sordido, the farmer whose avarice culminates at the point where he upbraids the men who cut him down for not untying the new halter. Then followed the sketch of Sir Puntarvolo who united two humours. The first, his fad for reviving the elaborate manners of chivalry is destroyed by being caught in an absurd "make believe" situation. The second, his proclivity for dealing in "returns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Moulton's Lecture. | 1/6/1891 | See Source »

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