Volpone: A critical guide [Paperback]

A comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson'sVolpone,introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.A comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson'sVolpone,introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.Matthew Steggleis Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is editor of the ejournalEarly Modern Literary Studies.

Matthew Steggle's collection of critical essays deals perspicaciously with many of the painful questions that linger about Ben Jonson's most popular play & Steggle's collection confirms the power and wit of Jonson's most enduring stage comedy. The Sixteenth Century Journal

Offers the most wide-ranging and thought-provoking overview of Jonson's comedy ever assembled. It considers the play both as a literary text and as a performance piece, covering its history on the stage and in critical commentary, and so illuminating the current state of scholarship on this most provocative and ambiguous of plays. The well-balanced essays are not afraid to disagree with each other and repeatedly point us towards exciting new questions about a play which is all too often castrated by being labelled a 'classic'. It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students alike. Future study ofVolponestarts here. Richard Dutton, Ohio State University, USA

Series Introduction
Volpone Timeline
Introduction
The Critical Backstory Sam Thompson
Performance History, Rebecca Yearling
The State of the Art: Robert C. Evans
New Directions: Jonson's Literary Theater: Volpone in Performance and Print (1606-1607) James P. Bednarz
New Directions: Live Free, . . . Rob Churches, . . . Lend me your Dwarf : What's Funny about Volpone? Rick Bowers
New Directions: Ben Jonson and Imprisonment Frances Teague
New Directions: Age and AgeilÃN