Volpone's Bastards: Theorising Jonson's City Comedy - 9781474423472

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.

• | Author: Isaac Hui
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1474423477
• | ISBN-13: 9781474423472