PL v Volpone Critics Reversed Flashcards
‘Jonson attempts to generate moral impulses in his audience by dramatizing a world which has lost all ability to do so’
Hiscock
‘Milton’s effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful’
Carey
‘Volpone is a satanic challenger to God’s order and society’s’
Knapp
Both ‘Volpone’ and ‘Paradise Lost’ ‘induce a sympathetic understanding of villainy without sentimentalising the villain’
Campbell
Milton appears to have ‘a Turkish contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings’
Dr Johnson
‘Small language effects can trick the reader into heretic thinking’
Stanley Fish
‘Milton was of the devil’s party without knowing it’
William Blake
‘Passion as a result of flattery rules her reason’
Weston on Eve
Volpone is a ‘gigantic satire on acting itself’
Niell
‘Volpone’s vices sparkle so brightly they almost mask the darkness of his depravity’
Clare Brennan
‘Celia’s desire to be a martyr to charity comes across as a masochistic response to voyeur fistic sadism’
McAvoy
Audience applauded rape scene
Used animal costumes
Tyrone Guthrie 1964 production of Volpone in Minneapolis