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Volpone

Volpone (, Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean-era comedies.[citation needed]

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Genre
comedy, city comedy
Date
Spring 1606
Original language
Early Modern English
Place
Globe Theatre, London
Setting
Venice, Renaissance period
Subject
greed, lust

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Volpone

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related to Further reading · 77
Volpone → Age, Alexander, Anne, ANQ, Barish, Barton, Ben, Ben Jonson, Ben Jonson Companion, Ben Jonson's Plays, Ben Jonson's Volpone, Bloomington, Brian, Brock, Buffalo, Cambridge, Cañadas, Citizen Comedy, Comedy, Desire
related to Productions · 36
Volpone → After, Alexander Cooke, Cambridge, Celia, Charles, Charles II, Cockpit-in-Court, Drury Lane, Either, Globe Theatre, Hart's Mosca, It, James Wright's Historia Histrionica, John Evelyn, John Genest, John Lowin, Jonson, Katherine Corey, King's Men, King's Men's
related to Characters · 18
Volpone → Carrion Crow, Corbaccio's, Corvino's, English, Englishman, Fly, Lady Would-BeLady Would-Be, Pilgrim, Politic Would-Be, Raven, Sir Politic Would-BePeregrine, Sly Fox, Venetian, Venice, VolponeAndrogyno, VolponeCastrone, VolponeThe Avocatori, Vulture
related to Synopsis · 18
Volpone → Believing, Celia, Corbaccio, Corvino, Disguised, In, Mosca, Mountebank, Scoto, The Crow, The Fly, The Fox, The Raven, The Vulture, To Volpone, Venetian, Volpone's, Voltore
related to Adaptations · 16
Volpone → Baroncelli, Begun, French, George Antheil, In, Jacques, Jules Romains, Maurice Tourneur, Mosca, Romains, Stefan Zweig, Their French-language, This, Tourneur, Volpone's, Zweig
related to External links · 9
Volpone → IMDbJohn Musto's Volpone, Internet Broadway DatabaseVolpone, Internet Off-Broadway Database, LibriVox, Online, PeerMusic ClassicalOnline Sparknotes, Project GutenbergVolpone, SparkNotes, The Fox
Date · 1
Volpone → Spring 1606
Genre · 1
Volpone → comedy, city comedy
Original language · 1
Volpone → Early Modern English
Place · 1
Volpone → Globe Theatre, London

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mosca play production celia corvino theatre ben jonson john comedy english would-be fox jonson's modern sir lady performed played performance

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VolponeDateSpring 16061.00infobox
VolponeGenrecomedy, city comedy1.00infobox
VolponeOriginal languageEarly Modern English1.00infobox
VolponePlaceGlobe Theatre, London1.00infobox
VolponeSettingVenice, Renaissance period1.00infobox
VolponeSubjectgreed, lust1.00infobox
VolponeWritten byBen Jonson1.00infobox
Francis Beaumontinstance ofby fellow-poets0.80text
John Fletcherinstance ofby fellow-poets0.80text
Volponerelated to AdaptationsJules Romains0.60section
Volponerelated to AdaptationsStefan Zweig0.60section
Volponerelated to AdaptationsTheir French-language0.60section

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