Volpone and Other Plays PDF Ben Jonson

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Jonson also uses language and imagery in such a way that we of the audience are led to make our own moral judgements. Volpone’s speeches are often memorably beautiful, but the poetry is never purely ornamental. Thus although, in his more splendid passages, Volpone’s energy, intelligence, and thrust may seem to link him in our minds with Dr Faustus and Tamburlaine the Great, the Marlovian over-reachers, we see that he has none of their heroic aspirations. Volpone’s habitual disguise as an old man sick unto death, his assumed diseases and senility, ironically point to his own inner sickness; his energy and intelligence shine out in the early scenes of the play principally in contrast to the drab and joyless self-interest and miserliness of his dupes, Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino. He gets more pleasure from manipulating them, and from watching them squirm, than from anything their gold, diamonds, and pearls enable him to do. Volpone’s functio

• Book Name: Volpone and Other Plays pdf
• Author Name Ben Jonson
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2010

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