The Comedy Of Humours -??????-This was adopted and practised by Ben Jonson. It deals with ordinary characters with four humours which governed individual temperaments, according to a medieval theory.
Humour, cheerful,calm and sad are the mixtures which determines the character of a person. Therefore each major characters has one or the other humour. In this type of comedy, the playwright satirises men and manners of his day.
Some popular Comedies of Humours are -
Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson
Eastward HO by George Chapman.