Volpone
Ben Jonson
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  • eBook released: May 20, 1994
  • Genre: Satire

Volpone

Ben Jonson
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Volpone is a comedy book set in 17th-century Venice. Wealthy Volpone pretends to be ill to trick greedy acquaintances into giving him gifts. With the help of his cunning assistant, they navigate a web of deception, leading to mistaken identities.

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Ben Jonson

Jonson was a bricklayer’s stepson who soldiered in the Low Countries, killed a fellow actor in a duel in 1598, and escaped hanging only by pleading benefit of clergy, which left him branded on the thumb. Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair are the comedies…

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