Volpone: A critical guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826411532)

This is a comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson's Volpone - introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. As perhaps the best-known and most-studied work in the canon of Shakespeare's leading contemporary rival, Ben Jonson's Volpone (1606) is a particularly important play for thinking about early modern drama as a whole. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent versions on stage and screen. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays presenting contrasting critical approaches focusing on literary intertextuality; performance studies; political history; and broader social history. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research.

Author: Matthew Steggle
ISBN-10: 0826411533
ISBN-13: 9780826411532
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2011
Pages: 214
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 187