by Ben Jonson · Dover Publications · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486280493
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«Volpone» is Ben Jonson's satirical Elizabethan comedy, published by Dover Publications in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Volpone, a rich and cunning Venetian nobleman, pretends to be dying so that his greedy acquaintances offer him gifts in the hope of inheriting his fortune. With the help of his servant Mosca, he weaves tricks and disguises; the plot becomes entangled until the fraud is discovered and the guilty receive their punishment.
It belongs to the Dover Thrift Editions collection, in unabridged edition. Its original title is Volpone, or The Foxe: A Comedie; the work dates from 1606.
It will interest students of English literature and those who enjoy classical theatre and social satire.
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."
