PL v Volpone Critics Reversed Flashcards

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‘Jonson attempts to generate moral impulses in his audience by dramatizing a world which has lost all ability to do so’

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Hiscock

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‘Milton’s effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful’

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Carey

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‘Volpone is a satanic challenger to God’s order and society’s’

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Knapp

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Both ‘Volpone’ and ‘Paradise Lost’ ‘induce a sympathetic understanding of villainy without sentimentalising the villain’

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Campbell

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Milton appears to have ‘a Turkish contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings’

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Dr Johnson

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‘Small language effects can trick the reader into heretic thinking’

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Stanley Fish

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‘Milton was of the devil’s party without knowing it’

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William Blake

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‘Passion as a result of flattery rules her reason’

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Weston on Eve

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Volpone is a ‘gigantic satire on acting itself’

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Niell

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‘Volpone’s vices sparkle so brightly they almost mask the darkness of his depravity’

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Clare Brennan

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‘Celia’s desire to be a martyr to charity comes across as a masochistic response to voyeur fistic sadism’

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McAvoy

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Audience applauded rape scene

Used animal costumes

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Tyrone Guthrie 1964 production of Volpone in Minneapolis

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