Ben Jonson and his sources -- Humorous characterization in the comedies of Ben Jonson -- The influence of Jonson on seventeenth and eighteenth-century comedy -- The intrusion of humorous characterization into the English novel -- The meaning of the comic -- Nomadic humours -- Unconscious revelation.
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