I have never seen his face before now. Mark me your villain : you have too much wrong , And I do suffer for you , sir. My heart Weeps blood in anguishBon. Lead ; I follow thee. Signior Corvino! Of what? The sudden good Dropt down upon you. And none knows how , From old Volpone , sir. The court either laid discipline on everyone involved. Ultimately, Volpon addresses the followership. You must be logged in to post a comment.
English , English Literature , Play. Leave a Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Drawn from speculative philosophy, it was believed that base metals could be turned into gold through alchemy. It was widely believed that success at alchemy could also lead to the discovery of an elixir which would restore youth and life.
Since Volpone knows that now he is too old to beget a child, he is busy belying this reality by amassing gold. That is why, he stands in sharp contrast to Corbaccio, whose behaviour is also cunning and deceitful, but who wishes his son to be the beneficiary of his ill-gotten gains.
Both Corbaccio and Volpone are similar in that they belie their old age, for their respective ends. This becomes an interesting phenomenon, as it is commonly believed that women are more inclined to conceal their age than men. The play portrays the subversion of the common social order, as both Corbaccio and Volpone not only belie their old age, but Volpone also disregards the impotence that sets in with old age.
Volpone like Faustus is an over-reacher. Mephistopheles allures Faustus by offering him Helen of Troy and thus arousing in him sensual pleasures. Similarly, Volpone yearns for Celia while Mosca assumes a Mephistophelean role, acting as an accomplice to Volpone by making attempts at overpowering Celia.
Volpone is ready to philander with Lady Would-be Politic, till Mosca inveigles him into seeing Celia, who is young and pretty. Poonam Arora dilates upon this phenomenon as follows: Devdas initially despises Chandramukhi for her sexual promiscuity and refuses her. Chandramukhi falls in love with Devdas precisely because she idealizes his chastity. Celia is also compared to gold by Volpone. In return, he asks for her surrender. The mobility of Celia, who is young and pretty, is restricted by a chastity belt, whereas, Volpone who is old and impotent wants to win Celia, by tempting her with the wealth he has gotten hold of through deception.
Hence Volpone wants to satisfy his male chauvinistic instinct by winning over Celia. As Leggat further says, 17 Ibid, Volpone thus wants to reinforce his machismo by forcing Celia to yield. He calls her husband, Corvino, a cheat, for the latter offers Celia to Volpone out of sheer greed. Dutton of Columbia University states: A critical review is made of feminist analyses of wife assault, which postulates that patriarchy is a direct cause of wife assault.
A relationship exists between structural patriarchy and wife assault. It is concluded that patriarchy must interact with psychological variables in order to account for the great variation in power-violence data.
It is suggested that some forms of psychopathology lead to some men adopting patriarchal ideology to justify and rationalize their own pathology. His diction abounds with figures of speech to mask the truth. No woman ever considered him an eligible bachelor, hence he finds an outlet for his lascivious tendencies in philandering with Lady Would-be Politic or Celia. Apparently, the craving for power, and the loss of virility can cause psychological problems in the male psyche.
In the Encyclopedia of Psychology, a quotation by Abraham Maslow highlights the drive for power; the quotation is as follows: Beyond the details of air, water, food… Freud laid out five broader layers: the physiological needs, the needs for safety and security, the needs for love and belonging, the needs for esteem, and the need to actualize the self, in that order The progeny that Volpone had been able to beget through his illicit relations with different women further highlight his profile.
They are ineffectual as 'children', handicapped in one way or the other. As Volpone assumes different roles and guises, they also do so, in order to entertain Volpone. Mosca takes on the two-fold role of a director-writer, who furthers the enactment of the play before Volpone takes upon himself to act. The one thing in which Volpone is adept is role-playing, and he is termed as a consummate actor by critics. Volpone in the last act candidly says that he never hated his disguise as a sick man.
This is a kind of masochistic tendency in him. He also argued that the desire for sado-masochism can arise on its own when a man wants to assume the passive female role, with bondage and beating signifying being "castrated or copulated with, or giving birth While Marston is usually famed more for his very public rivalry with Jonson than for the quality of his plays, this book argues that such a view of Marston seriously underestimates his importance to the theatre of his time.
In it, the author contends that Marston's plays represent an experiment in a new kind of satiric drama, with origins in the humanist tradition of serio ludere. His works—deliberately unpredictable, inconsistent and metatheatrical—subvert theatrical conventions and provide confusingly multiple perspectives on the action, forcing their spectators to engage actively with the drama and the moral dilemmas that it presents.
The book argues that Marston's work thus anticipates and perhaps influenced the mid-period work of Ben Jonson, in plays such as Sejanus, Volpone and The Alchemist. Download Imitation And Praise In The Poems Of Ben Jonson books , The original publication of Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson in led to a reinterpretation of the Jonson's poems and philosophy; the resulting portrait of Jonson served as a corrective to earlier views based primarily on the satiric poems and plays.
This second edition of a now-classic text makes Peterson's important scholarship available to a new generation of scholars. Search for:. Author : Anthony W. Author : James E. Author : Richard S. Peterson Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. Best Books.
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