| Volpone: Ben Jonson Revised Edition Contributor(s): Parker, Brian (Author), Bevington, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0719051827 ISBN-13: 9780719051821 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1999 Annotation: This Revels Student Edition, with a carefully modernized text, presents new material about "Volpone" 's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian "commedia dell 'art" and discusses its mockery of greed in relation to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of a Golden Age. Referring to famous productions, it pays particular attention to decisions that must be made whenever the play is performed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Drama - Literary Criticism | Modern - 16th Century |
| Dewey: 822.3 |
| LCCN: 98028842 |
| Series: Revels Student Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.55 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This edition contains in distilled form the insight and learning found in the fuller Revels critical editions, but with less of the learning apparatus that is appropriate to a critical edition. Compact and up to date introduction and commentary. The price and format are designed to be competitive with any paperback teaching edition of this play. |