Volpone's Bastards: Theorising Jonson's City Comedy

ISBN-13: 9781474423472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Issac Hui

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Jonson and Comedy; 2. ‘For pleasing imitation of greater men’s action’ – Nano the Anamorphic Ape; 3. ‘Think me cold, frozen, and impotent, and so report me?’ – Volpone and his ‘Castrone’ Complex; 4. ‘The case appears too liquid’ – The Two Sides of Androgyno; 5. ‘I fear I shall begin to grow in love with my dear self’: the Parasite and his ‘Mirror Stage’; 6. Jonson’s Comedy of Bastardy; 7. Conclusion: ‘Fools, they are the only Nation’ – Re-reading the interlude and Beyond.