Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman, The sentences Balancing a respect for tradition

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Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman, The sentences Balancing a respect for traditionThis edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice. The first production of Epicene marked the end of a year long closure of the theatres because of an epidemic of the plague in 1609; its comedy affirms the consolatory power of laughter at such a time. The Alchemist (1610) deploys the metaphors