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Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot (Hardcover)
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Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot (Hardcover)
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Ben Jonson's Volpone is the most widely taught and commonly
performed English Renaissance play outside of Shakespeare. However,
the dramatic circumstances of its writing are little known. Jonson
wrote the play very shortly after the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, an
event in which he was personally involved. This book argues that
the play alludes to the plot as openly as censorship will allow,
using the traditional form of the beast fable. As a Roman Catholic
himself, Jonson shared in the repression suffered by his
co-religionists in the wake of the Plot, and the play fiercely
satirizes the man they chiefly blamed for this, Robert Cecil. The
elaborate format which Jonson devised for the 1607 edition of
Volpone, with a dedication, Epistle and numerous commendatory
poems, is reproduced here photographically, allowing the reader to
appreciate Jonson's covert meanings and to approach the text as
those in 1607 might have done.
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