Volpone, Or, The Fox Poetry_Gift_Guide and new expectations from friends

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Volpone, Or, The Fox Poetry_Gift_Guide and new expectations from friendsVolpone, Or, The Fox is Ben Jonson's great parable of greed, selfinterest and inheritance. Using animal fable to satirize the wealthy and the greedy, it remains one of his most distinctive and compelling dramatic works. Jonson wrote the play for performance in 1606, and orchestrated its publication the following year. In it, the wealthy Venetian Volpone pretends to be on his deathbed, encouraging Voltore, Corbaccio and Corvinothe vulture, raven and