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The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in the 21st. The full, modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes which communicate the devastating comic energy of Volpone's... Read Full Overview

Volpone is a greedy Venetian nobleman who has no relative to inherit his wealth. Pretending to be on his death bed several people trying to win Volpone's favor.

Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605-06, 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... Read Full Overview

2018 Reprint of 1958 Edition. Much-studied and frequently performed, this comedy by the great Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson satirizes the greed, mendacity, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society. In Volpone (1605), a crafty rich man attempts... Read Full Overview

This is the most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date, based on a wider collation of the 1607 quarto and 1616 folio versions than was previously possible. It calls into question several accepted textual conclusions. The introduction sets Volpone in the context of... Read Full Overview

Volpone by Ben Jonson is a comedy play first produced in 1605-06. The play draws on elements of city comedy and beast fable and is a classic that has been enjoyed by many for generations, a great addition to the collection.Any profits generated from the sale of this book will... Read Full Overview

Volpone

Or, The Fox

By Ben Jonson

A Merciless Satire of Greed and Lust

Volpone (Italian for "salty tears") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1105-06, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast... Read Full Overview

This edition contains in distilled form the insight and learning found in the fuller Revels critical editions, but with less of the learning apparatus that is appropriate to a critical edition. Compact and up to date introduction and commentary. The price and format are designed... Read Full Overview

Volpone by Ben Jonson is a comedy play first produced in 1605-06. The play draws on elements of city comedy and beast fable and is a classic that has been enjoyed by many for generations, a wonderful work of literature and a great addition to any collection.

Volpone, or "The Fox," is one of Jonson's most popular plays and through the years has been a favorite of both theater-goers and readers. Professor Kernan offers his own interpretation, in a critical introduction that fully exploits the rich imagery, intricate plot... Read Full Overview

Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 - c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598),... Read Full Overview

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's satiric masterpiece: "Volpone, or the Fox."

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Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605-1606, 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... Read Full Overview

Jonson's comic masterpiece whichh illustrates the manipulations and schemes people concoct out of greed.

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... Read Full Overview

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization... Read Full Overview