Talk:Every Man out of His Humour

Carlo Buffone, Puntarvolo, Sogliardo and Sordido
I believe that Carlo Buffone is William Kempe, the "great jester" of London at that time. There are explicit allusions to Kempes singing and dancing, his Morescas ("morrice-dances"), his jigs and even to his shoes. Perhaps Jonson's Carlo Buffone was a kind of bye-bye to Kempe, who already had left the Lord Chamberlain's Men (and London?)?

Puntarvolo, who is described as a nobleman and a playwright, and who has a boar in the crest of his coat of arms (als Sogliardo tells us), should be Edward de Vere. Who else had that boar in his crest? Which nobleman, and which playwright?

Jonson alludes to William Shakespeare with the two brothers Sogliardo and Sordido - to Sogliardo, the new created gentleman with his yellow coat of armes and his motto "not without mustard" (non sanz droict), and to Sordido with the hoarding of malt in times of famine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhetorix (talk) 19:01, 20 January 2011 (UTC)