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The talkative Lady Politick wishes to offer some distraction to the apparently sick Volpone. She recommends him an Italian book in these words: All our English writers, I mean such as are happy in the Italian, Will deign to steal out of this author mainly; Almost as much as from Montagnie: He has so modern and facile a vein, Fitting the time, and catching the court-ear! Alas, Sir!
"You are right; there must be many such. There was not a cottage in the place where I and my dogs were not familiar and half domesticated." "All's right, so far, then. But I repeat, we must not be too sanguine. Law is not justice " "But God is," said Philip; and he left the room. "Volpone. A little in a mist, but not dejected; Never but still myself." BEN JONSON: Volpone. "Peregrine.
Volpone boasts of the clever manner with which he gains riches: I use no trade, no venture; I wound no earth with ploughshares, fat no beasts To feed the shambles; have no mills for iron, Oil, corn, or men, to grind them into powder: ... expose no ships To threatenings of the furrow-faced sea; I turn no monies in the public bank, Nor usure private.
Under the existing strict laws which forbade religious questions being discussed on the stage, the latter references had to be made in parable manner, but still not too covertly, so that they might be understood by a certain audience namely, the members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Already, in the Prologue of his 'Volpone, Jonson says of himself that
This learned opinion we celebrate will,... With a song, praising fools, the Interlude closes. This is what Volpone says:
'VOLPONE, by Ben Jonson. 'EASTWARD HOE, by Chapman, Ben Jonson, and Marston. Ben Jonson's 'Volpone' was first acted in 1605; and on February 11, 1607, it appeared in print.
Sir Basil Hopwood was the rather of the same complexion of Entrails with that Signor Volpone whom we have all seen at least such of us as be old Boys in Ben Jonson's play of the Fox. He Money-grubbed, and Money-clutched, and Money-wrung, ay, and in a manner Money-stole, that he might live largely, and ruffle it among his brother Cits in surpassing state and splendour.
Besides, if we admit that satire to be built on facts, we learn further, that he performed the part of Zuliman at the Paris Garden in Southwark, and ambled by a play-waggon on the high-way, and took mad Jeronymo's part to get service amongst the mimicks . Shakespear is said to have first introduced him to the world, by recommending a play of his to the stage, at the time when one of the players had rejected his performance, and told him it would be of no service to their company . His first printed dramatic performance was a Comedy, entitled Every Man in his Humour, acted in the year 1598, which being soon followed by several others, as his Sejanus, his Volpone, his Silent Woman, and his Alchymist, gained him so high a reputation, that in October 1619, upon the death of Mr.
In his dedication to Volpone he says this power of persuasion which the poet possesses to so eminent a degree is to be applied to the moral well-being of men, "to inform men in the best reason of living." Himself a writer for the theatre, Jonson is naturally more concerned with comedy and tragedy than he is with any narrative forms of poetry.
He as well as Bishop Burnet and several other prelates, had been treated with great virulence in Sacheverel's sermon, and the-lord treasurer was scurrilously abused under the name of Volpone.
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