Keith Linley

'Volpone' in Context

Biters Bitten and Fools Fooled

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What would a Jacobean audience have made of this grim exposure of human greed? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'Volpone' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this dark play.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9781783085583
• ISBN-10: 1783085584
• Artikelnr.: 45606906

Autorenporträt

Poet, painter, teacher and academic, Keith Linley has lectured at university and given papers at conferences and book festivals on a range of literary subjects.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
About this book - What is a context? - Further Reading
Part I. The Inherited Past
Prologue: the setting
1. The historical context
2. The world order: from divinity to dust
3. Sin, death and the prince of darkness
4. The seven cardinal virtues
5. Kingship
6. Patriarchy, family authority and gender relationships
7. Man in his place
8. Images of disorder: the religious context
Part II. The Jacobean present
9. Ben in context
10. Literary context
11. The political context
12. The beast fable
13. Transgressions and sins: the biters bit.14. The venetian context: consumerism and cannibalism
Bibliography