Much-studied and frequently performed, these comedies by the great Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson satirize the greed, mendacity, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society. Both plays abound in colorful characters, ingenious plotting, biting wit, and sharp insight into huma
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Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot
โ Scribed by Nicholls, M.
- Book ID
- 117988562
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 46 KB
- Volume
- CXXIV
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0013-8266
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