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Sir Walter Scot
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Christopher Marlow
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Ben Johnson
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George Herbert
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Detailed explanation-1: -Volpone ([volˈpoːne], Italian for “sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson’s most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Volpone is a powerful moral study of human greed, foxy cunning, and goatish lust. It is not the traditional form of comedy. It is a play that takes on the form of a comical satire as well as a morality play. It also adapts the features of a fable, and in that it strives to teach a moral.
Detailed explanation-3: -When Ben Jonson wrote Volpone (c. 1605–06) he broke new ground in the English theatre.
Detailed explanation-4: -Volpone is a savage satire on human avarice for gold, or greed for wealth. It is a forceful play and presents a vision of life which is at once horrifying and disgusting. It is rightly said that the “world of Volpone is crudely materialistic and gold-centred".
Detailed explanation-5: -He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605), Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614).