Ben Jonson, Volpone, and the Gunpowder Plot
Ben Jonson's 'Volpone' is the most widely taught and commonly performed English Renaissance play outside of Shakespeare. This book argues that the play alludes to the plot as openly as censorship will allow, using the traditional form of the beast fable.
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Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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Zusammenfassung: | Ben Jonson's 'Volpone' is the most widely taught and commonly performed English Renaissance play outside of Shakespeare. This book argues that the play alludes to the plot as openly as censorship will allow, using the traditional form of the beast fable. |
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Beschreibung: | XIII, 178 S. Ill. |
ISBN: | 9780521879545 978-0-521-87954-5 |