Volpone / Ben Jonson.

Author/creator Jonson, Ben
Other author Watson, Robert N.
Format Electronic
Edition[New ed.] / edited by Robert N. Watson.
PublicationLondon : A. and C. Black, 2003.
Description1 online resource (xxxv, 171 pages) : portraits.
Supplemental ContentDrama online
Subjects

SeriesNew mermaids
New mermaids. ^A910554
Summary 'Volpone' is the sharpest, funniest play about money and morals in the seventeenth century - a play still wickedly relevant four centuries later. Jonson's comedy depicts selfishness thinly veiled by sanctimonious speeches, lust and possessiveness poorly disguised as love and marriage, and cynical legalism passing itself off as pure justice - as well as examining snobbery, class warfare, and greed. It was first performed by the King's Men at the Globe in 1606, and was printed in quarto in 1607.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Issued in other formPrint version : 9780713654332
Genre/formDrama.
Standard identifier# 10.5040/9781408169179.00000017

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