6. Who said "that man’s lesser faults may be made to appear ridiculous and so be avoided”
William Gifford
Emile Durkheim
Ben Jonson
AC Swinburne
7. negative catalogue
Ben Jonson
John J Enck
Robert Adams
Anne Barton
8. Jonson was in a “Schizophrenic” predicament of having to flatter the authorities e.g. the King, whilst wanting to critique it and so must participate “in the same pattern of consumption and display” he denounces.
Bruce Thomas Boehr
Richard Barbour
Peter Hyland
John Hall
9. “A wholly material city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world’s unconscious”
Anne Barton
Richard Barbour
John J Enck
William Hazlitt
10. glad that Bonario and Celia were not “united in love but in innocence”. Their parting in separate ways allowed the audience to share in Jonson’s “cold implacability”. There
Sean McEvoy
Ian Donaldson
WB Yeats
Peter Hyland
11. Jonson’s theatricality is modelled on eroticised delay through irony. “Volpone’s greatest fear – which he enacts daily for his clients, as if to master it – is to be immobilised, impotent, void of desire”
Richard Barbour
Jonas A Barish
Edward B Partridge
Alvin Kernan
12. the courts are inadequate, and the punishment they give is purely mechanical since crime “will lead to success that can no longer contain itself to any limits”
John J Enck
WB Yeats
Alexander Leggatt
Sean McEvoy
13. Volpone “consciously and deliberately” ruins himself to achieve aesthetic effect “material punishment does not matter to Volpone for he had succeeded as an artist and put Mosca, the rival artist, in his place” (he still wins as the master trickster)
Alexander Leggatt
John J Enck
Jonas A Barish
Bruce Thomas Boehr
14. Volpone is not animated by a fixed goal but by a “continual self-projection into a feigned and alien identity...it is the exhilarating play of possibility”
Robert Adams
Ian Donaldson
William Dryden
John Hall
15. “forc’d from it in the fifth”
Bruce Thomas Boehr
John Dryden
John J Enck
William Hazlitt
16. “unspeakably, unexemplary mortals”
Alexander Leggatt
Bruce Thomas Boehr
AC Swinburne
John Wheeler
17. debasement of religious imagery by associating it with mercenary society. Calls the first scene a “parody of prayer”
Sean McEvoy
Edward B Partridge
Anne Barton
Jonas A Barish
18. Corbaccio’s deafness is not what makes him funny, or is against John Dennis’ “comedy of instruction”. It is the fact that his deafness “never interferes with his avarice” and is symbolic of his moral failing. “Avarice, in effect has supplanted his ot
Michael Williams
David Riggs
Jonas A Barish
Mike Brett
19. Sir Pol is not part of the main part of vice, and so can escape unscathed from the “folly of imitating that vice”
Michael Williams
ST Coleridge
Mike Bret
Ian Donaldson
20. Believes that Volpone and Mosca should not have been punished by Jonson’s virtue who “sends off the honest tricksters to a punishment far worse than of their crooked victims”
