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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... In 1632 appeared The Magnetic lady. His last years were overshadowed by sickness and debt. He died on the 6th of August 1637 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. SOURCES OF THE PLAY a) Classical Influences: There are three - 3 -
... In 1632 appeared The Magnetic lady. His last years were overshadowed by sickness and debt. He died on the 6th of August 1637 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. SOURCES OF THE PLAY a) Classical Influences: There are three - 3 -
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... Lady Would-Be and the freak's first entertainment. The source for legacy-hunting is borrowed form Horace and Lucian; Lady Would-Be derives from Juvenal's satire VI, and the freak's entertainment in Act I scene ii is a parody on ...
... Lady Would-Be and the freak's first entertainment. The source for legacy-hunting is borrowed form Horace and Lucian; Lady Would-Be derives from Juvenal's satire VI, and the freak's entertainment in Act I scene ii is a parody on ...
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... Lady Would-be is parrot - like and merely chatters excessively. Her Husband, Sir Pol the parrot is an imitator "who takes his values from the behaviour of animals actually playing the game"(5) Barish is of the opinion that peregrine ...
... Lady Would-be is parrot - like and merely chatters excessively. Her Husband, Sir Pol the parrot is an imitator "who takes his values from the behaviour of animals actually playing the game"(5) Barish is of the opinion that peregrine ...
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... Lady Would - Be are related to the major motifs of the play. The playwrilght presents us with the main theme from the very first act : I have no wife, no parent, child. ally. To give my substance to ; but whom I make Must be my heir ...
... Lady Would - Be are related to the major motifs of the play. The playwrilght presents us with the main theme from the very first act : I have no wife, no parent, child. ally. To give my substance to ; but whom I make Must be my heir ...
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... Lady Would - Be perjure themselves. The act is the natural conclusion to the sequence of events and reveals Volpone and Mosca's perfect partnership. This is the last success before the fall. In act V Mosca realizes that this is the ...
... Lady Would - Be perjure themselves. The act is the natural conclusion to the sequence of events and reveals Volpone and Mosca's perfect partnership. This is the last success before the fall. In act V Mosca realizes that this is the ...
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