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Through studying Volpone's three bastard children, this book discusses how Jonson's comedies are built upon the tension between death, castration and nothingness on one hand, and the comic slippage of identities in the city on the other.

Volpone'S Bastards: Theorising Jonson's City Comedy

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Through studying Volpone's three bastard children, this book discusses how Jonson's comedies are built upon the tension between death, castration... Read more

    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 31/08/2019
    ISBN13: 9781474452496, 978-1474452496
    ISBN10: 1474452493

    Number of Pages: 192

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Through studying Volpone's three bastard children, this book discusses how Jonson's comedies are built upon the tension between death, castration and nothingness on one hand, and the comic slippage of identities in the city on the other.

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