The English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is best known for his satiric comedies. An immensely learned man with an irascible and domineering personality, he was, next to Shakespeare, the greatest dramatic genius of the English Renaissance. B...
By turns turbulent and weighty, scatological and refined, boisterous and delicate, Ben Jonson's works have always excited strong reactions among his readers and his playgoing audiences, just as his personality strongly impressed or offended his contempor...
By turns turbulent and weighty, scatalogical and refined, boisterous and delicate, Ben Jonson's works have always excited strong reactions among his readers and his playgoing audiences, just as his personality strongly impressed or offended his contempor...
Volpone by Ben Jonson Ben Jonson, by common consensus the greatest Renaissance playwright after Shakespeare, was born the stepson of a bricklayer in 1573. In the late 1590s after some years in the occupation of a bricklayer himself and of a soldier,...
Volpone, or The Fox (in Italian: "Big Fox"), is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and animal fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is...
He was offered congratulations late last week, and Charlie Volpone graciously accepted them. After all, he said he was quite proud of the birth of his eighth grandchild a few weeks earlier. The only thing is, Volpone was being congratulated for another reason....
STOW -- Knowledge is power. Just ask the veteran twosome of Charlie Volpone and Joe Keller. The pair used Volpone's vast knowledge of Stow Acres' 36 holes to capture the Massachusetts Golf Association's State Four-Ball Championship yesterday. Volpone and Keller combined for...
William Hutt, widely regarded as one of Canada's finest classical actors and a company member at the Stratford Festival for almost four decades, has died at the age of 87.Hutt died Wednesday of leukemia at Stratford General Hospital, the Festival announced.At the Stratford Festival, where...
Broadway and screen actor George Grizzard, who won acclaim, and a Tony Award, for performing in Edward Albee's dramas, has died. He was 79.Grizzard died Tuesday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center of complications from lung cancer, said his agent, Clifford Stevens.Grizzard's film roles included...
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