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Salome, The Rape of the Lock, Volpone, with Beardsley's illustrations, are flanked by the more pretentious performances of the Kelmscott Press and the Vale Press and the other Presses aspiring with much advertisement to do what the Constables of Edinburgh did so much better as a matter of course, and, as a reminder of this truth, the Montaigne of the Tudor Series is there and the Apuleius and the Heliodorus, each with its inscription.
Hamlet, when asked by the King how he 'calls the play, answers: 'The Mouse-trap. Mosca calls his own cunningness with which he thinks he can overreach his master, the 'Fox-trap. If our intention were not to restrict this treatise to desirable limits, many more satirical passages might be pointed out in 'Volpone, which are manifestly directed against 'Hamlet' and Shakspere.
When the stage is raised on the theatre for Volpone, who is disguised as a quacksalver, Sir Politick wishes to enlighten Peregrine as to the fellows that 'mount the bank. We need not explain that this is directed against the 'so-called stage-poets' and players.
In Volpone Jonson for once has entered into Italian manners, without, however, taking an ideal view of them. The leading idea is admirable, and for the most part worked out with masterly skill.
Ludlow can have had no personal knowledge of the circumstances. But he does not scruple to describe the marriage as a contrivance of Clarendon, "that old Volpone." "I am so broken under the daily insupportable instances of your Majesty's terrible displeasure, that I know not what to do, hardly what to wish.
'Poetaster' , by Ben Jonson. 2. 'Satiromastix' , by Thomas Dekker. 3. 'Malcontent' , by John Marston. 4. 'Volpone' , by Ben Jonson. 5. 'Eastward Hoe' , by Ben Jonson, Chapman, and Marston. In 'The Poetaster' Ben Jonson makes his chief attack upon Dekker and Shakspere. In 'Satiromastix, Dekker defends himself against that attack.
We now come to some hints contained in 'Volpone, which partly consist of an endeavour to expose Shakspere on account of plagiarisms committed against other writers, partly of references to irreligious tendencies, against which Jonson warns, and which he strives to ridicule.
Ben Jonson's Volpone and Silent Woman. Cunningham's Edition. The Elizabethan age proper closed with the death of the queen, and the accession of James I., in 1603, but the literature of the fifty years following was quite as rich as that of the half-century that had passed since she came to the throne, in 1557.
Hence such strange appellatives as Sir Epicure Mammon, Sir Amorous La Foole, Morose, Wellbred, Downright, Fastidius Brisk, Volpone, Corbaccio, Sordido, and Fallace. After the Restoration, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger were, for a time, more popular than Shakespeare; so that the label-names seemed to have the sanction of the giants that were before the Flood.
Hamlet, as we shall prove beyond the possibility of cavil, is the hitherto unexplained 'purge' in 'The Return from Parnassus, which 'our fellow Shakspere' administered to Ben Jonson in return for the 'pill' destined for himself in 'The Poetaster. After the publication of 'Hamlet, Jonson wrote his 'Volpone' as a counterblast to this drama.
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