In a 1598 play named after these concepts, the elderly Knowell sends his servant Brainworm to spy on his son Edward, before the characters are tried by Judge Clement. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these concepts that name a genre of play that, along with comedies of manners, dominated the Restoration Era.
ANSWER: humors [accept comedy of humors]
[10e] This playwright of Volpone followed up the comedy of humors Every Man in His Humor with Every Man Out of His Humor.
ANSWER: Ben Jonson [or Benjamin Jonson]
[10m] This author pioneered humors comedy in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria and An Humorous Day’s Mirth. The speaker of a John Keats poem feels like a “watcher of the skies” after reading this author’s English translation of Homer.
ANSWER: George Chapman [accept “On Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”]
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