by Ben Jonson · A & C Black Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713630442
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«Volpone» is the play by Ben Jonson published by A & C Black Publishers Ltd in hardcover (170 pages, in English).
Satirical comedy set in 17th-century Venice. Volpone, an old and wealthy Venetian, pretends to be at death's door so that his greedy acquaintances shower him with gifts hoping to inherit his fortune. With irony, the play portrays the avarice, deceit and corruption of a society obsessed with money.
Edition by Philip Brockbank in the New Mermaids series: critical introduction, author biography, analysis of dates and sources, textual notes, bibliography and information on staging.
Recommended for students of English literature, lovers of classical theatre and readers of Renaissance drama.
Ben Jonson was an English actor, poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on 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), Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614), and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I."
