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Ben Jonson argues that real poets should use their work to both entertain and instruct their audiences. Describe how Jonson uses comedy in the play to ridicule the vices of his characters.
Compare Volpone’s three main disguises—the invalid, the mountebank, and the commendatore. What do these disguises reveal about his true character?
Mosca proclaims that “All the wise world is little else in nature / But parasites or sub-parasites” (3.1.12-13). How does the play confirm this observation?
By Ben Jonson
Bartholomew Fair
Bartholomew Fair
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Every Man In His Humour
Every Man In His Humour
Ben Jonson
Still to be neat, still to be dressed
Still to be neat, still to be dressed
Ben Jonson
The Alchemist
The Alchemist
Ben Jonson
The Masque of Blackness
The Masque of Blackness
Ben Jonson
To Penshurst
To Penshurst
Ben Jonson