Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot / Richard Dutton.
2008
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Title
Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot / Richard Dutton.
Created/published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description
xiii, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Summary
Ben Jonson's 'Volpone' is the most widely taught and commonly performed English Renaissance play outside of Shakespeare. This book argues that the play alludes to the plot as openly as censorship will allow, using the traditional form of the beast fable.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-171) and index.
Contents
Jonson's life and the epistle to Volpone
Commendatory verses and 'metempsychosis'
'Sir Pol': dating, identification and satiric method
Volpone and beast fable
Volpone's Venice
Patronage, plotting and diabolic possession in the 'main-' and 'bye-plots'
Conclusion and aftermath.
Commendatory verses and 'metempsychosis'
'Sir Pol': dating, identification and satiric method
Volpone and beast fable
Volpone's Venice
Patronage, plotting and diabolic possession in the 'main-' and 'bye-plots'
Conclusion and aftermath.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.
Call number
PR2622 .D88 2008
Folger accession
266982