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They have excellent notes which appear at the end of the book that are keyed to line numbers in the text. Published on December 11, 2010. Hiram Gòmez Pardo Venezuela. This item: The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair (Oxford World's Classics). Customers who bought this item also bought. Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1.

Volpone; Or, The Fox. 197 printed pages. Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman. Volpone is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies. Ben Jonson, byname of Benjamin Jonson, (born June 11?, 1572, London, England-died August 6, 1637, London), English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic.

1. Jonson's choices; a playwright's life 2. Volpone, or the fox 3. Epicoene, or the silent woman 4. The Alchemist 5. Bartholomew fair 6. Notes on texts. Ben Jonson, Dr. Helen Ostovich. Longman Annotated Texts.

Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction, notes, and glossary further bring to life these timeless comedies for the modern reader.

Contributor(s): Ostovich, Helen. Material type: BookSeries: Longman annotated texts.

By: Jonson, Ben. Contributor(s): Ostovich, Helen. Publisher: London ; New York : Longman,Description: xi, 696 p. ; 24 c. SBN: 058207066X (PPR); 0582070678 (CSD). Other title: Jonson, 4 comedies Four comedies Ben Jonson four comedies. Subject(s): Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637DDC classification: 82. Volpone, or, The fox - Epicone, or, The silent woman - The alchemist - Bartholomew fair. catalogued by: wessam. Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title.

Epicœne, or The Silent Woman, also known as Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. The play is about a man named Dauphine who creates a scheme to get his inheritance from his uncle Morose

Epicœne, or The Silent Woman, also known as Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. The play is about a man named Dauphine who creates a scheme to get his inheritance from his uncle Morose. The plan involves setting Morose up to marry Epicoene, a boy disguised as a woman. It was originally performed by the Blackfriars Children, or Children of the Queen's Revels, a group of boy players, in 1609. Excluding its two prologues, the play is written entirely in prose.

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Are you sure you want to remove Jonson, four comedies from your list? Jonson, four comedies. by Ben Jonson, Helen Ostovich. Published 1997 by Longman in London, New York. Volpone, or, The fox. Epicone, or, The silent woman. Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-696) and index. Jonson, 4 comedies, Four comedies, Ben Jonson four comedies.

Volpone, in full Volpone; or, The Fox, comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson, performed about 1605/06 and published in 1607. Volpone ( Fox ), a wealthy Venetian without heirs, devises a scheme to become wealthier by playing on people’s greed. With the complicity of his servant Mosca ( Fly ), Volpone pretends to be near death. He accepts valuable gifts from three fortune hunters, each of whom receives personal assurance from Mosca that he alone is to inherit all of Volpone’s wealth.

or the Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), Bartholomew Fair .

The identity of Jonson's wife has always been obscure, yet she sometimes is identified as "Ann Lewis", the woman who married a Benjamin Jonson in 1594, at the church of St. .Yet Epicoene, along with Bartholomew Fair and (to a lesser extent) The Devil is an Ass have in modern times achieved a certain degree of recognition.