"Every Man in His Humour" by Ben Jonson is a classic Elizabethan comedy that offers a humorous yet incisive portrayal of London society in the early 17th century.
Volpone; Or, The Fox Ben Jonson - Volpone ([volpone], Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 16051606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.
This Revels Student Edition, with a carefully modernized text, presents new material about "Volpone" 's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian "commedia dell 'art" and discusses its mockery of greed in relation to two ...
"Every Man in His Humour" is an important work of English literature that demonstrates Ben Jonson's skill for character development, razor-sharp humor, and social satire.