Name: Volpone
Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)

Ben Jonson

Great Elizabethan satire concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who feigns a mortal illness to solicit bribes from greedy acquaintances.

Volpone

Kwan Ann Tan

Autumn 

Akanksha Chattopadhyay

Julianne

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

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