A Study of Character Tradition in the Comedy of Humours by Ben Jonson to the Year 1602

Author

Fern Hogue Mitchell

Publication Date

5-31-1938

Abstract

The writer's objective in this study is to show that some of the same elements used by Ben Jonson had been used by early English dramatists, and that Humour as a character trait had already been used before the presentation of the comedies of Jonson.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Masters

First Committee Member (Chair)

Thomas Matthews Pearce

Second Committee Member

George St.Clair

Third Committee Member

Dane Farnsworth Smith

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Recommended Citation

Mitchell, Fern Hogue. "A Study of Character Tradition in the Comedy of Humours by Ben Jonson to the Year 1602." (1938). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/171