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

Анастасия Розова

*Read for class.

No. Just no. Too offensive to women, disgusting. And all the other parts were silly, not funny and just plain bad. I mean, there's literally NOTHING funny about this. I know it's supposed to be a satire, but it's too mean and didn't make me feel interested or good about reading it once. I almost hate it.
I want nothing to do with such kind of drama.

Olivia Mitchell

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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