Every Man in His Humour

Author(s): Jonson, Ben
Date of composition:
  • 1598
Date of first performance: 1598
Date of first publication: 1601
Genre (Annals): Comedy

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1143 (Vol. 4)
  • 1601 quarto Read, Richard; Stafford, Simon Burre, Walter Printed title: EVERY MAN IN his Humor single-play print
      ESTC: S109361 14766 313 176a
      EEBO-TCP: A04647 - Huntington Library - EEBO record - TCP HTML XML
      Observations: Substantive textual version.
  • 1616 folio Stansby, William Meighen, Richard (for issue STC 14752) Printed title: Euery MAN IN HIS HVMOVR. A Comœdie. play in print collection
      ESTC: S126501 and S111817 for STC 14751; S112455 for STC 14752 14751 , 14752 5074.01 176b
      EEBO-TCP: A04632 - British Library - EEBO record for ESTC S112355 ; record for ESTC S111817 – TCP HTML XML for STC 14752 HTML
      Observations: Substantive textual version. Revised and expurgated. Title of collection: The Works (orig. "THE WORKES") (DEEP number 5074 for issue STC 14751 and 5075 for issue STC 14752).
      Facsimile of STC 14751: Folger Shakespeare Library
  • 1640 folio Bishop, Richard play in print collection

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Early Performances

  • Company: Lord Chamberlain's Men (Hundon's) Venue: The Curtain playhouse Date: 1598,
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: Between 10 July and 20 September. Venue uncertain.
      Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 4: 1598-1602. 2014.
    • Company: Venue: Date: 1601
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
        Note: 1601 is the latest date. The 1601 quarto title page refers to the play as 'sundry times publicly acted'
        Information source:
      • Company: The King’s Men Venue: Whitehall Palace Date: 1605
        Cast:
          Location: Venue type: palace / court
          Note: 2 February
          Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 4: 1598-1602. 2014.
        • Company: The King’s Men Venue: The Cockpit at Whitehall Palace Date: 1631
          Cast:
            Location: Venue type: palace / court
            Note: 17 February
            Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 4: 1598-1602. 2014.
          • Company: The King’s Men Venue: The Blackfriars Date: 1631
            Cast:
              Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
              Note: 18 February. Indoor “private” theatre
              Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 4: 1598-1602. 2014.

            Modern editions

            • Bevington, David, ed. Every Man in His Humour [1601 Text]. In: Bevington, David; Donaldson, Ian; Butler, Martin, ed. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 111-227
            • Miola, Robert S, ed. Every Man in His Humour. Jonson, Ben. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. The Revels Plays.
            • Lever, J. W, ed. Every Man in His Humour: A Parallel-Text Edition of the 1601 Quarto and the 1616 Folio. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971. Regents Renaissance Drama.
            • Jackson, Gabriele Bernhard, ed. Every Man in His Humor. Jonson, Ben. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. Yale Ben Jonson.
            • Seymour-Smith, Martin, ed. Every Man in His Humour. London: Benn, 1967. New Mermaids Series.
            • Brooke, Charles F. Tucker; Paradise, Nathaniel Burton, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: Heath, 1933.
            • Herford, C. H.; Simpson, Percy, ed. Everyman in His Humour. In: Ben Jonson. Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, pp. 191-403
            • Matthews, Brander; Leider, Paul Robert, ed. The Chief British Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924.
            • Carter, Henry Holland, ed. Ben Jonson: 'Every Man in his Humour. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press and Milford, 1921. Yale Studies in English Language.

            Select Bibliography: Criticism

            • Penuel, Suzanne. "'Every Man in His Humour and the fathers of Ben". Ben Jonson Journal. 2016, vol. 2, 23, p. 212-30.
            • Bromley, James M. "Cruisy Historicism: Sartorial Extravagance and Public Sexual Culture in Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour". Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 2016, vol. 2, 16, p. 21-58.
            • Craig, Hugh. "'An Image of the Times': Ben Jonson's Revision of Every Man in His Humour". English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature. 2014, vol. 1, 82, p. 14-33.
            • Kendrick, Matthew. "Humoralism and Poverty in Jonson's 'Every Man in His Humour'". South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association. 2013, vol. 2, 30, p. 73-90.
            • Groves, Beatrice. "Urban Identity and the Old Jewry in Jonson's Every Man in His Humour". Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James and Charles. 2012, vol. 1, 19, p. 1-22.
            • Cave, Richard Allen. "Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour: A Case Study". Ed. Milling, Jane; Thomson, Peter. The Cambridge History of British Theater, Volume 1: Origins to 1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 282-97.
            • Riddell, James A. "Jonson and Stansby and the Revisions of Every Man in His Humour". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism and Reviews. 1997, 9, p. 81-91.
            • Whalen, David M. "'Composing the Imperfect': Ridicule and the Rhetoric of Generosity in Jonson's Every Man in His Humour". The Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James and Charles. 1995, 2, p. 129-41.
            • Chin, Sheon Joo. "Jonson's Comedy of Humours and Every Man in His Humour". Journal of the English Language and Literature. 1990, 31, p. 85-94.
            • Cohen, Ralph Alan. "The Importance of Setting in the Revision of Every Man in His Humour". English Literary Renaissance. 1978, 8, p. 183-96.
            • Dutton, A. Richard. "The Significance of Jonson's Revision of Every Man in His Humour". Modern Language Review. 1974, 69, p. 241-49.
            • Sewell, Sallie. "The Relation between The Merry Wives of Windsor and Jonson's Every Man in His Humour". Shakespeare Association Bulletin. 1941, 16, p. 175-189.

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