In Ben Jonson’s play Every Man in His Humour, Shakespeare’s character Knowell and the cunning servant Brainworm are versions of this genre’s classical senex and slave stock characters. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this genre of most of Jonson’s plays, which commonly drew on the works of Menander and Aristophanes.
ANSWER: comedy [accept comedy of humors]
[10h] The servant Brainworm who tricks Shakespeare’s character in Every Man in His Humour is taken from this playwright’s clever slave archetype. This Roman playwright’s The Menaechmi ("men-IKE-me") was adapted into The Comedy of Errors.
ANSWER: Plautus [or Titus Maccius Plautus]
[10m] Shakespeare’s original role as the old man Knowell is recorded in one of these books collecting Jonson’s works. A 1623 book with this name collected Shakespeare’s plays after his death.
ANSWER: folios [accept First Folio]
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