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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | January 24, 1948 issue

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This article criticizes the play "Volpone," by Ben Jonson. The play is somewhat ill advised. The groundlings seem well enough pleased with the knock-about farce they have provided, but no one who knew the play only as they have presented it would ever suspect that "Volpone" is actually an astounding work of a very nearly unique kind. None of Jonson's plays is, a "natural" for the contemporary theater, and the best of them can stand a certain amount of adaptation. Even in his own day, or at least shortly thereafter, audience began to find his copiousness almost more than they could take.

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VOLPONE (Theatrical production); JONSON, Ben, 1573?-1637; DRAMA; PERFORMING arts; THEATER; ARTS
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