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... of collective “imagining,” becomes fascinating to Ben Jonson in particular as something utterly fragile and yet vitally necessary for both productive and creative social order. Jonson’s drama Volpone (1606) demonstrates the ability of “credit culture” to sustain itself through theatrical effects of collective...

... of Crowns, 1603 – 1607  393 – 417 Sheerin, Brian The Substance of Shadows: Imagination and Credit Culture in Volpone  369 – 391 Sherman, Donovan Governing the Wolf: Soul and Space in The Merchant of Venice  99 – 120 Smith, Bruce R. Taking the Measure of Global Space  25 – 48 Weisser...

... receipts that accompanied a remedy when sold—what Volpone's Scoto of Mantua refers to on his bank as “the Physitian” and full “theorick” of medical art. 57 Volpone's brief meditation on the receipt indicates that the relationship between mountebank text and performance is closer and more complex...

... and of judgment. In the prefatory epistle to Volpone , in which Ben Jonson defends his rough treatment of his own comic hero-villain, he insists that comic writers have long seen to it that practitioners of vice “ are mulcted [punished]: and fitly, it being the office of a comick-Poet, to imitate justice...

... it up. See Volpone, or the Fox, in The Alchemist and Other Plays, ed. Gordon Campbell (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). For recent critical con- siderations of metempsychosis in Volpone, see Jonathan Gil Harris, Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease...

... in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (1596), where Antonio’s far-flung mercan- tile endeavors are described by Salerio and Solanio with a sense of wonder, almost fascination, probably shared by many in the audience.41 A clever twist on that fascination is marked in Volpone...

..., betrothing Iago; howling in animal rage on the heath and again at Cordelia's death), and it's worth recalling that Burbage played Volpone and Subtle, too. What does this dynamic tell us about the hardware of performance, and the understanding of embodiment, what bodies were understood to be capable of doing...

... of State: Chapman s Monsieur D Olive, in Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare, ed. Pow- ell and Rossiter, 185 97; Netzloff, Jonson s Volpone and the Information Economy of Anglo- Venetian Travel and Intelligence, in Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era: Islands, Entrepôts...

...: Univer- sity Press of Florida, 2011. xxiv, 274 pp.; chronology, genealogy. $69.95. Steggle, Matthew, ed. “Volpone”: A Critical Guide. Continuum Renaissance Drama. London: Continuum, 2011. xi, 200 pp.; chronology. $90.00, paper $29.95. Cornett / New Books across...

.... Dutton, Richard. Ben Jonson, “Volpone,” and the Gunpowder Plot. Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 178 pp.; 17 plates. $99.00. Enders, Jody. Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xxiii, 285 pp. $45.00...

... of the Latin Jewish Neoplatonist treatise.] Johnson, Ben. Four Plays: “Volpone,” “Epicone,” “The Alchemist,” “Barthol- mew Fair.” Edited by Robert N. Watson. New Mermaids Anthologies. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014. xxvi, 713 pp. Paper $17.95. La Sale, Antoine de. Jean de Saintré: A Late Medieval...

....” Translated by Margaret Berger. Library of Medieval Women. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999. xvii, 166 pp. Paper $19.95. Johnson, Ben. Volpone. Edited by Brian Parker and David Bevington. Revels Student Editions. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. 209 pp. Paper $9.95. La Marche, Olivier de. Le...

.... On Illustrious Men. Translated by Thomas P. Halton. The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, vol. 100. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999. xxx, 211 pp.; 1 illus. $34.95. Jonson, Ben. Volpone, or The Fox. Revised edition. Edited by Brian Parker...

... (published 1640) opens by exclaiming: Jonson’s alive! The world admiring stands, And to declare his welcome there, shake hands. Therefore repair to him [Jonson’s “ghost and praise each line Of his Volpone, Sejanus, Catiline. But stay, and let me tell you...