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''Every Man In his Humour. 1598''

S. R. [1600], Aug. 4. 'Euery man in his humour, a booke to be staied' (Arber, iii. 37). [As You Like It, Henry V, and Much Ado about Nothing are included in the entry, which appears to be an exceptional memorandum. The year 1600 is conjectured from the fact that the entry follows another of May 1600.] 1600, Aug. 14 (Pasfield). 'A booke called Euery man in his humour.' Burby and Walter Burre (Arber, iii. 169). 1609, Oct. 16. Transfer of Mrs. Burby's share to Welby (Arber, iii. 421). 1601. Every Man In his Humor. As it hath beene sundry times publickly acted by the right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants. Written by Ben. Iohnson. For Walter Burre.

1616. Euery Man In His Humour. A Comœdie. Acted in the yeere 1598. By the then Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants. The Author B. I. By William Stansby. [Part of F_{1}. Epistle to William Camden, signed 'Ben. Ionson', and Prologue. After text: 'This Comoedie was first Acted, in the yeere 1598. By the then L. Chamberlayne his Seruants. The principall Comœdians were, Will. Shakespeare, Ric. Burbadge, Aug. Philips, Ioh. Hemings, Hen. Condel, Tho. Pope, Will. Slye, Chr. Beeston, Will. Kempe, Ioh. Duke. With the allowance of the Master of Revells.']

Editions by W. Scott (1811, M. B. D. iii), H. B. Wheatley (1877), W. M. Dixon (1901, T. D.), H. Maas (1901, Rostock diss.), W. A. Neilson (1911, C. E. D.), C. H. Herford (1913, R. E. C. ii), P. Simpson (1919), H. H. Carter (1921, Yale Studies, lii), and facsimile reprints of Q_{1} by C. Grabau (1902, Jahrbuch, xxxviii. 1), W. Bang and W. W. Greg (1905, Materialien, x).—Dissertations: A. Buff, The Quarto Edition of B. J.'s E. M. I. (1877, E. S. i. 181), B. Nicholson, ''On the Dates of the Two Versions of E. M. I. (1882, Antiquary'', vi. 15, 106).

The date assigned by F_{1} is confirmed by an allusion ( iv. 15) to the 'fencing Burgullian' or Burgundian, John Barrose, who challenged all fencers in that year, and was hanged for murder on 10 July (Stowe, Annales, 787). The production must have been shortly before 20 Sept, when Toby Mathew wrote to Dudley Carleton (S. P. D. Eliz. cclxviii. 61; Simpson, ix) of an Almain who lost 300 crowns at 'a new play called, Euery mans humour'. Two short passages were taken from the play in R. Allot's England's Parnassus (1600, ed. Crawford, xxxii. 110, 112, 436) which is earlier than Q_{1}. The Q_{1} text ( i. 184) contains a hit at Anthony Munday in 'that he liue in more penurie of wit and inuention, then eyther the Hall-Beadle, or Poet Nuntius'. This has disappeared from F_{1}, which in other respects represents a complete revision of the Q_{1} text. Many passages have been improved from a literary point of view; the scene has been transferred from Italy to London and the names anglicized; the oaths have all been expunged or softened. Fleay, i. 358, finding references to a 'queen' in F_{1} for the 'duke' of Q_{1} and an apparent dating of St. Mark's Day on a Friday, assigned the revision to 1601, and conjectured that it was done by