Comedy of Humors
Ben Johnson is the first dramatist, who conceived and popularized this dramatic genre during late sixteenth century. The term humor derives from Latin word ‘humor’ that means liquid. It comes from a theory that human body has four liquids or humors, which include phelgm, blood, yellow bile and black bile. It explains that when human beings have balance of these humors in their bodies, they remain healthy.
Ben Johnson is the first dramatist, who conceived and popularized this dramatic genre during late sixteenth century. The term humor derives from Latin word ‘humor’ that means liquid. It comes from a theory that human body has four liquids or humors, which include phelgm, blood, yellow bile and black bile. It explains that when human beings have balance of these humors in their bodies, they remain healthy.
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