Category: Book Volpone

Comparing Morality in the Plays of Volpone and A King and No King Introduction Morality has been one of the major themes not only of movies and plays of today but also of earlier plays. This is evident in Ben Jonson’s Volpone and Beaumont and Fletcher’s A King and No King. This paper seeks to…

Volpone is a story of one day from life of aforementioned Volpone – a nobleman living in seventeenth-century Venice and a con artist. The play starts at his house when he leads his “parasite” Mosca (who may be a slave or a servant or a mix of both) to the secret room in the house,…