Volpone: A critical guide
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Publishing Details
Volpone: A critical guide
By (Author) Dr Matthew Steggle
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Continuum Publishing Corporation
20th January 2011
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
822.3
Physical Properties
Hardback
214
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
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.
Reviews
Volpone: A Critical Guide 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 of Volpone starts here.' -- Richard Dutton, Humanities Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of English, Ohio State University, USA
Author Bio
Matthew Steggle is Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is editor of the ejournal Early Modern Literary Studies, and a Contributing Editor to The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson.
