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An illustration for an 1898 edition of Volpone by Aubrey Beardsley. Volpone ([volˈpoːne], Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.
Volpone, written by English playwright Ben Johnson in 1606, is a satirical Jacobean comedy that unfolds in 17th-century Venice. The play follows the wealthy Volpone as he feigns illness in order to trick his greedy acquaintances into giving him gifts.
Feb 16, 2010 · "Volpone, or the Fox," is, in a sense, a transition play from the dramatic satires of the war of the theatres to the purer comedy represented in the plays named above.
Volpone, 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.
Volpone takes place in seventeenth-century Venice, over the course of one day. The play opens at the house of Volpone, a Venetian nobleman. He and his "parasite" Mosca—part slave, part servant, part lackey—enter the shrine where Volpone keeps his gold.
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Volpone is an old, wealthy man without children living in Venice, Italy. With Mosca, his parasite (which means a hanger-on, a low-born servant or follower living off a wealthier person), Volpone stages an elaborate scam. Volpone pretends to be deathly ill, and is leading several people on to believe that they will be named his heir.
