Volpone (Acts IV-V)

T01163308183
Sir Politic Would-Be opens Act IV with tourist tips for English travellers to Venice. The play ends with Volpone being led to prison but twenty-five lines later he is back on stage delivering the play's Epilogue. The British Library owns a copy of the play inscribed by Jonson to John Florio whose 1598 Italian-English dictionary defines a volpone as "an old fox, an old reinard, an old craftie, slie, subtle companion, sneaking, lurking, wily deceiver".

Author

Ben Jonson (1606)

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Archive :: production:T01163308183, play:S0497948152, venue:V165

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Production details

Part of the Globe's READ NOT DEAD season