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Chapter 1:	BEN JONSON AND HIS SOURCES
	Classical literary sources (Decorum, the comedies of Plautus and Terence, the Ridiculous)
	Medieval Sources: Mystery, Morality and Interlude
	The Great Chain and Man as Microcosm
	Ancient medical theory and Renaissance psychology
	The character sketch
	Early Humour plays (George Chapman, Henry Porter)
Chapter 2:	HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION IN THE COMEDIES OF BEN JONSON
	In humour
	Out of humour
	Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair
Chapter 3:	THE INFLUENCE OF JONSON ON SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COMEDY
	Richard Brome
	James Shirley
	Thomas Shadwell
	Colley Cibber
	The Sons of Ben
	Margareth Cavendish
	Aphra Behn
	James Miller
	Oliver Goldsmith
	Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Chapter 4:	THE INTRUSION OF HUMOROUS CHARACTERIZATION INTO THE ENGLISH NOVEL
	Henry Fielding
	Tobias Smollett
Chapter 5:	THE MEANING OF THE COMIC
Chapter 6:	NOMADIC HUMOURS
	Where did the humours go
	Berlin 1900
	Fabulous
	Hilarious
	An ever-closer union
	Identity mix-up
	Chameleon
	An exchange of notes
	Visiting card
	Holy See
	Sisyphean diplomatic challenge
	Laughter above
	The laughing philosopher
Chapter 7:	UNCONSCIOUS REVELATION