Volpone

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2. 2. 2017 - Počet stran: 264
Ben Jonson was a major English playwright, poet, and literary critic. Jonson helped popularize the comedy of humours as well as satirical plays and he is often regarded as the second greatest English playwright after William Shakespeare. Some of Jonson's classics include The Alchemist, Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, and Every Man in His Humour.Volpone is a satirical comedy with themes of greed and lust. Volpone was first performed in 1606 and it remains Jonson's most performed play. The action centers around a Venetian gentleman who pretends to be on his deathbed in an attempt to trick three men who want to inherit his fortune.

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Born in 1572, Ben Jonson rejected his father's bricklaying trade and ran away from his apprenticeship to join the army. He returned to England in 1592, working as an actor and playwright. In 1598, he was tried for murder after killing another actor in a duel, and was briefly imprisoned. One of his first plays, Every Man Out of His Humor (1599) had fellow playwright William Shakespeare as a cast member. His success grew with such works as Volpone (1605) and The Alchemist (1610) and he was popular at court, frequently writing the Christmas masque. He is considered a very fine Elizabethan poet. In some anti-Stratfordian circles he is proposed as the true author of Shakespeare's plays, though this view is not widely accepted. Jonson was appointed London historian in 1628, but that same year, his life took a downward turn. He suffered a paralyzing stroke and lost favor at court after an argument with architect Inigo Jones and the death of King James I. Ben Jonson died on August 6, 1637.

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