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'Volpone' in Context
- Biters Bitten and Fools Fooled
Engelsk Paperback

'Volpone' in Context

- Biters Bitten and Fools Fooled
Engelsk Paperback

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Everything you need to know about the cultural contexts of ''Volpone''. The unremitting exposure of human vileness is black and bleak, redeemed perhaps by the eventual punishment of the wrongdoers in an outcome achieved more by luck than justice. This book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the various influences that a Jacobean audience would have brought to interpreting the play. How did people think about the world, about God, about sin, about kings, about civilized conduct, about the predatory impulses that drive men to prey upon each other? Historical, literary, political, sociological backgrounds are explained within the biblical-moral matrices by which the play would have been judged. This book links real life in the late 1600s to the world on the stage. Discover the orthodox beliefs people held about religion. Meet the Devil, the Seven Deadly Sins and human depravity. Learn about the social hierarchy, gender relationships, court corruption, class tensions, the literary profile of the time, attitudes to comedy – and all the subversions, transgressions, and oppositions that made the play a topical satire but also an unsettling picture of a world so close to disaster.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
322
ISBN-13:
9781783085583
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1783085584
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Udg. Dato:
21 nov 2016
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Anthem Press
Oplagsdato:
21 nov 2016
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