A satire of human greed and corruption that is as relevant now as it was when first performed about 400 years ago. Nobody can be trusted, and you hate pretty much everyone. There is no one here to root for in a story full of opportunistic liars.
Times change, but human nature doesn’t.

- لا اعرف اذا كانت هذه المسرحية من كتابة بن جونسون او من كتابة الكونت ادوارد، لكنها مسرحية استطاع كاتبها نقد المجتمع البرجوازي واظهار سقاطته كما تمكّن من نقد الطبيعة الإنسانية الجشعة.

- "فولبون" او "الثعلب" رجل بخيل اراد لعب لعبة لا ليكتشف زيف اصدقائه فهو يعرفهم جيداً ويعرف جشعهم بل ليتسلى بهم ويسلي

Volpone, or The Foxe, carries with it the sanctimonious themes of lust and money. It is as relevant today as it may have been in the seventeenth century. The characters of the play are ascribed certain animal imageries akin to their traits. It, in no way, uplifts their status quo, but rather showcas

A 17th Century Guy Ritchie
28 May 2017

It took me a while to get around to actually writing a review of this play namely because I wanted to watch it being performed and I discovered this high school performance on Youtube. Okay, while it is a cut down version, the sound is rubbish, and the performan

Genius Story

Apart from being too long, this is an excellent play. Ben Jonson is sophisticated and erudite, but also bawdy and saucy. An admirable mixture of book-learning and worldly wisdom.

Judging from the other responses here, as well as my own, Jonson's most obvious defect is that he doesn't inspire people t