单词 | jonsonian |
释义 | Jonsonianadj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Jonson or his works. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [adjective] > specific playwright Terentian1600 Sophocleana1644 Shakespeareana1754 Plautine1768 Aeschylean1783 Marlowish1798 Websterian1809 Euripidean1821 Aristophanic1827 Fletcherian1850 Marlowesque1884 Senecan1885 Jonsonian1886 Marlovian1887 Ibsenian1891 Ibsenish1893 Pinerotic1895 Shavian1904 bardolatrous1905 Ibsenesque1906 Strindbergian1913 Lylian1923 Chekhovian1925 Sheridanesque1931 Brechtian1935 Vanbrughian1947 Stoppardian1978 1886 J. A. Symonds Ben Jonson 153 The most truly Jonsonian of all these places..was the Old Devil Tavern at Temple Bar. 1909 G. G. Greenwood In re Shakespeare ii. 76 I here leave the Jonsonian riddle. 1928 C. J. Sisson Eliz. Dramatists iv. 43 The Jonsonian comedy of humour. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 405/1 But the ‘laws of dramatic art’ have already ceased to look Aristotelian or Jonsonian. 1947 Partisan Rev. Mar. 176 They are monsters in the Jonsonian manner; a human trait has been carried in them to the point of inhumanity. 1959 Times 26 Nov. 6/5 Mr. Raymond Raikes's production took pleasure in the Jonsonian tumult. 1973 M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. IV. 2 The father..may be a traditional Jonsonian ‘humours’ character with a dominant eccentricity. Derivatives Jonˈsonianly adv. in the manner of Jonson or his works. ΚΠ 1948 F. R. Leavis Great Trad. v. 235 Bounderby..remains Jonsonianly consistent in his last testament and death. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1886 |
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