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An Image of the Times
AN IRREVERENT COMPANION TO BEN JONSON’S FOUR HUMOURS AND THE ART OF DIPLOMACY
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The characters in the moralities, though called by abstract names, are often from life, and each character has a motive of action to distinguish it from the rest … by the greater nearness to actual life, by the concreteness and individualization that the abstractions take on. It is this side of medieval literature that influenced Jonson most strongly in his conception of comedy and of the types appropriate to it.47
The seven deady sins of the sermons, devotional and moral writing, the allegorical way of thinking, provoked a static and clear-cut picture of man and his behaviour and he could become indecorous or humorous if he committed one of the seven deadly sins. Pride, envy, avarice and ire emerged from a choleric humour, the indolence and inactivity of sloth corresponded to a phlegmatic humour, intemperance suggested a sanguine temper and lust, surprisingly, was nearest to a melancholy humour.
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