An Humorous Day's Mirth is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by George Chapman, first acted in 1597 and published in 1599.
"[1] An Humorous Day's Mirth was performed by the Admiral's Men at the Rose Theatre; it has been identified with the "Humours" play that the company acted on Thursday 11 May 1597, as described in a contemporary letter to Dudley Carleton from John Chamberlain.
He draws on an agricultural colloquialism to inform Carleton that, in his opinion, '(as the fellow saide of the shearing of hogges), that there was a great crie for so litle wolle.'
This has been taken to indicate that the printed versions of Chapman's earliest plays, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria and Humorous Day's Mirth, were corrupted and adulterated by other hands.
Chapman's play was the first Elizabethan humors comedy, drawing its material from the traditional theory of human physiology and psychology.