Volpone

Volpone
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1919
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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This Revels Student Edition, with a carefully modernized text, presents new material about "Volpone" 's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian "commedia dell 'art" and discusses its mockery of greed in relation to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of a Golden Age. Referring to famous productions, it pays particular attention to decisions that must be made whenever the play is performed.

Volpone

Volpone
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1714
Genre:
ISBN:

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Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1971
Genre:
ISBN:

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Ben Jonson's "Volpone, or the Fox": A Retelling

Ben Jonson's
Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1387184245

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Ben Jonson was a master of satire who ranks with Jonathan Swift and Voltaire. In Volpone, he tackles greed. The wealthy Venetian gentleman Volpone is as cunning as a fox, and he pretends to be very ill and dying in order to entice legacy-hunters to give him valuable gifts in hopes of being named his heir. This works well for three years, but then This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's satiric masterpiece: "Volpone, or the Fox."

Ben Jonson's Volpone, Or the Fox

Ben Jonson's Volpone, Or the Fox
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1988
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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Volpone / William Empson -- The false ending in Volpone / Stephen Greenblatt -- Comic form in Ben Jonson / Leo Salingar -- Comic language in Volpone / L.A. Bea urline -- The double view in Volpone / C.N. Manlove -- Volpone / Anne Barton -- The play of conspirancies in Volpone / William W. E. Slights.