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Volpone


 

Volpone, or The Fox, is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, and considered one of the finest comedies of the Jacobean period.

Characters

  • Volpone (the Fox) – a greedy, childless Venetian nobleman
  • Mosca (the Fly) – his servant
  • Voltore (the Vulture) – a lawyer
  • Corbaccio (the Carrion Crow) – an avaricious old miser
  • Corvino (the Raven) – a merchant
  • Sir Politic - Would - Be; ridiculous Englishman. Based? on Sir Henry Wotton, http://www.henrywotton.org.uk/.