Full name: Volpone, or The Fox

Author: Ben Jonson Year: 1606 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Play, Free books Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Project Gutenberg LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780486280493 9781511946049 0486280497 1511946040

Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The plot concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who feigns a mortal illness in order to solicit bribes from greedy acquaintances who hope to inherit his fortune. Many complexities of plot and connivance ensue, but in the end, the guilty parties are exposed and punished. Explanatory footnotes. Similar books: Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson The Alchemist by Ben Jonson The Rover by Aphra Behn The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford The Homecoming by Harold Pinter Five Plays by Thomas Middleton Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw Travesties by Tom Stoppard The Caretaker by Harold Pinter Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson The White Devil by John Webster The Country Wife by William Wycherley Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw The Way of the World by William Congreve A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams The Crucible by Arthur Miller Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller