Every Man Out of His Humour
讀書樂編號：4330
推介人： 黃韻玲校友
The story depicts the Latin models so closely that in the main plot, a gentlemen Kno'well being anxious about the moral development of his son attempts to keep his son who is a city gallant on secret surveillance; humourous enough, his emissary is repeatedly subverted by the servant, Brainworm, whom he employs for this purpose. The narration is certainly a ancient Greek New Comeday, specifically the devouring father, the son and the slave. On the other hand, a businessman Kitely suffers drastic envy as he fears his wife committing adultery with wastrels brought to his home. The actions in the stories are full of "humourous" characters: the irritable soldier, country gudgeon, ostentatious pot-poets... The story works through a series of complications which culminate when the justice, Clement, hears and decides all of the characters' various grievances, exposing each of them as based in humor, misperception, or deceit.
