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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... 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 Pythagorus ...
... 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 Pythagorus ...
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... 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 chatters excessively. Her Husband, Sir ...
... 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 chatters excessively. Her Husband, Sir ...
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... be reached by examining the works of the ancients. Yet he does not accept the unities as laws, although he is ... Would - Be are related to the major motifs of the play. The playwrilght presents us with the main theme from the very first ...
... be reached by examining the works of the ancients. Yet he does not accept the unities as laws, although he is ... Would - Be are related to the major motifs of the play. The playwrilght presents us with the main theme from the very first ...
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... is the trial scene in which the rogues are exculpated Corbaccio disowns his son, and Corvino and Lady Would - Be perjure themselves. The act is the natural conclusion to the sequence of events and reveals Volpone and Mosca's perfect ...
... is the trial scene in which the rogues are exculpated Corbaccio disowns his son, and Corvino and Lady Would - Be perjure themselves. The act is the natural conclusion to the sequence of events and reveals Volpone and Mosca's perfect ...
Strana 10
... would-Be are related to the main theme of the play. Sir Pol is a comic variation of Vlopone, he is a would - be politician whereas he is an unsuccessful enterpriser, Volpone is a real politican. Lady Would-Bejoins in the fame of legacy - ...
... would-Be are related to the main theme of the play. Sir Pol is a comic variation of Vlopone, he is a would - be politician whereas he is an unsuccessful enterpriser, Volpone is a real politican. Lady Would-Bejoins in the fame of legacy - ...
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