He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Foxe (1605), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy (1614), and for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.
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Every Man In His Humour (1598)
Cynthia's Revels (1610)
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems (1892)
Sejanus: His Fall (1603)
The Poetaster (1610)
Every Man Out Of His Humour (1599)
Epicoene (1609)
The Alchemist (1610)
Volpone or, The Fox (1606)
The Alchemist (1610)
The difference between the plot of The Alchemist and the plot of tragedy is not a difference of logical structure. It is simply a difference of attitude toward life. Tragedy treats of characters and events seriously, under the inexorable domination of the law of fate, while comedy treats of characters and events humorously, under the exorable adjustment of social conventions.
