Volpone; Or, The Fox

Volpone; Or, The Fox

Author: Ben Jonson

Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

Published: 2021-12-24

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 3986770941

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Volpone; Or, The Fox Ben Jonson - Volpone ([volpone], Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 16051606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies.


Volpone

Volpone

Author: Ben Jonson

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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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: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781355632191

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Volpone

Volpone

Author: Ben Jonson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1999-04-15

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780719051821

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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.