<p>In 'Every Man in His Humor,' Ben Jonson presents a satirical panorama of the follies and vices of Elizabethan society, deploying characters from varied social strata whose humors?dominating inclinations or obsessions?both animate and manipulate their actions. The play, written in a robust and lively prose, exhibits Jonson's mastery in using colloquial speech to create a comic effect, while employing a classical theory of humor that finds roots...