文档介绍：Volpone
Continuum Renaissance Drama
Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, University of Wales Bangor, UK and
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Continuum Renaissance Drama offers practical and accessible introduc-
tions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and
Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text’s critical and perform-
ance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into
the landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on
the state of the art and missioned essays of fresh research
from different critical perspectives.
Current titles:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ed. Regina ola
Doctor Faustus, ed. Sarah Munson Deats
’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, ed. Lisa Hopkins
Women Beware Women, ed. Andrew Hiscock
ing titles:
1 Henry IV, ed. Stephen Longstaffe
Duchess of Malfi, ed. Christina Luckyj
King Lear, ed. Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins
VOLPONE
A Critical Guide
Edited by Matthew Steggle
Continuum International Publishing Group
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© Matthew Steggle and contributors 2011
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
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ISBN: 978-0-8264-2495-2 (Hardback)
978-0-8264-1153-2 (Paperback)
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Printed and bound in India by Replika Press Pvt Ltd
Contents
Series Introduction vii
Timeline viii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Critical Backstory 8
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