Details

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".

Cast/Performers

Roger Barclay, James Chalmers, Leo Conville, Michael Cronin, Lucy Cudden, Nicholas Day, Matt Dempsey, Tom Frankland, Olivia Grant, Martin Hodgson, Matt Jamie, David Meyer, Christopher Middleton, Laura Murray, Kate Terence, James Thorne

Creatives/Company

Author: Ben Jonson (1606)
Other: James Wallace (Co-ordinator)