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“Though the most corrupt character in the world of the play, Volpone’s vitality and delight in life make him irresistibly attractive to us.” How far do you agree?”
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"Though the most corrupt character in the world of the play, Volpone's vitality and delight in life make him irresistibly attractive to us." How far do you agree?" In Volpone Jonson skilfully adapts the medieval tales of Reynard the Fox and Aesop's fable of the fox and the crow to suit his own moral and didactic purposes. His version allows for a greater range of comic opportunities through the encounters of the immediately likable yet cunning Volpone and Mosca and the foolish legacy-hunters. The plot itself has no specific source, rather Jonson draws on and combines two traditional Latin comedy plots, the gull-and-knave plot and the legacy-hunting plot as well as bringing in stock characters from Renaissance Italian comedies, such as that of the parasite, Mosca. Volpone's pride and openness in his own corruption contrasts starkly with the hidden motives of the suitors and the parasitic Mosca, allowing the audience to...
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