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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Strana 8
... 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 apoplexy, palsy, and catarrhs, Helps ...
... 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 apoplexy, palsy, and catarrhs, Helps ...
Strana 9
... wife. The scenes with Peregrine and Sir Pol relieve the tension of the first act. In act, II 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 ...
... wife. The scenes with Peregrine and Sir Pol relieve the tension of the first act. In act, II 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 ...
Strana 10
... wife, between the passions of Italy and the follies of England. By bringing the tow aspects of evil together into the same moral universe, and by his use of the beast fable to emphasize the moral issues with which he is concerned ...
... wife, between the passions of Italy and the follies of England. By bringing the tow aspects of evil together into the same moral universe, and by his use of the beast fable to emphasize the moral issues with which he is concerned ...
Strana 15
... Wife GELIA, Corvino's Wife Servitori, Servants, two Waiting - women, &C. SCENE - VENICE VOLPONE; OR, THE FOX ARGUMENT Volpone, childless, rich, feigns sick, - 15 -
... Wife GELIA, Corvino's Wife Servitori, Servants, two Waiting - women, &C. SCENE - VENICE VOLPONE; OR, THE FOX ARGUMENT Volpone, childless, rich, feigns sick, - 15 -
Strana 21
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