...inadequacy of stage devices to meet the demands of the romantic drama, he goes on to promise: — " Deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons,...choose, When she would shew an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes." In the Induction to Every Man out of his Humour he...

...Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please ; But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And gport with human follies, not with crimes. U. 9-16, 21-24. There is...

...heard To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; 20 But deeds, and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. Except we make 'em such,...

...bullet heard To say it thunders; nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; But deeds, and language, such as men do use; And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. Except we make 'hem such,...

...Humour, Jonson inveighed against chronicle plays, tragedy, and romance, and called for a comedy of "deeds, and language, such as men do use: And persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes." As he continued his comedies...

...prays, you will be pleased to see One such, today, as other plays should be. Jonson promises: . . . deeds and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as Comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. This, like the epistle-dedicatory...

...heard To say, it thunders, nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come; But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as comedy would choose When she would show an image of the times And sport with human follies, not with crimes. 1 The dates given for Jonson's...

...often infectious. In his prologue to Every Man in His Humour he writes of comedy's objectives as being persons, such as comedy would choose, When she would shew an image of the times. And sport with human follies, not with crimes. Except we make them such, by loving still Our popular...

...re-publication of Every Man in is articulated. The most decisive claim concerns mimesis itself, the need for "deeds, and language, such as men do use:/ And persons, such as Comedy would choose" (H&S 3:303). The argument is a timeworn one, insofar as writers have long tried to displace rivals...

...heard To say, it thunders: nor tempestuous drum Rumbles, to tell you when the storm doth come: But deeds, and language, such as men do use: And persons, such as Comordie would choose, When she would show an image of the times (Dn/ 79), And sport with human follies,...