VolponeAl Manhal, 1. 1. 2001 - Počet stran: 151 Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist’s finest plays. The plot concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who feigns a mortal illness in order to solicit bribes from greedy acquaintances who hope to inherit his fortune. Many complexities of plot and connivance ensue, but in the end, the guilty parties are exposed and punished. Explanatory footnotes. Descriptor(s): LITERARY FORMS | ENGLISH DRAMA | LITERARY STYLE | LITERARY CRITICISM | UNITED KINGDOM |
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... Corvino: Methinks Yet you, that are so traded in the world A witty merchant, the fine bird, Corvino, That have such moral emblems on your name, Should not have sung your shame, and dropt your Cheese, To let fox laugh at your emptiness ...
... Corvino: Methinks Yet you, that are so traded in the world A witty merchant, the fine bird, Corvino, That have such moral emblems on your name, Should not have sung your shame, and dropt your Cheese, To let fox laugh at your emptiness ...
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... Corvino, the crow who arrives last is notorious for greed The crow is also known as a dutiful family bird and is easily tamed by man. Sir Politik and his baiter Peregrine are only half bird Lady Would-be is parrot - like and merely ...
... Corvino, the crow who arrives last is notorious for greed The crow is also known as a dutiful family bird and is easily tamed by man. Sir Politik and his baiter Peregrine are only half bird Lady Would-be is parrot - like and merely ...
Strana 8
... Corvino's eagerness to offer his wife to the fox and Voltore's debasing of his profession. The moral disease is represented by physical disease, as Volpone's speech illustrates: Now, my feigned cough, my phtisic, and my goat, My ...
... Corvino's eagerness to offer his wife to the fox and Voltore's debasing of his profession. The moral disease is represented by physical disease, as Volpone's speech illustrates: Now, my feigned cough, my phtisic, and my goat, My ...
Strana 9
... Corvino's jealousy is aroused but it is only a prelude to his offering Celia to Volpone. The scene closes with Corvino swearing to Celia that his jealousy has been feigned for he now intends to offer her to Volpone. Act III opens up ...
... Corvino's jealousy is aroused but it is only a prelude to his offering Celia to Volpone. The scene closes with Corvino swearing to Celia that his jealousy has been feigned for he now intends to offer her to Volpone. Act III opens up ...
Strana 10
... Corvino, Voltore, and Corbaccio. As Barish says : "She is jealous like Corvino, as meaningglessly and pervesely erudite as Voltor, and like corbaccio, she makes compromising proposals to Mosca which leave her at the mercy of his ...
... Corvino, Voltore, and Corbaccio. As Barish says : "She is jealous like Corvino, as meaningglessly and pervesely erudite as Voltor, and like corbaccio, she makes compromising proposals to Mosca which leave her at the mercy of his ...
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