Volpone

Ben Jonson

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Baum, Helen Watts. The Satiric and the Didactic in Ben Jonson's Comedy. Richmond: University of North Carolina Press, 1947.

Brunning, Alizon. "Jonson's Romish Foxe: Anti-Catholic Discourse in Volpone." Early Modern Literary Studies 6.2 (September, 2000): 4.1–32.

Fizdale, Tay. "Jonson's Volpone and the 'Real' Antinous." Renaissance Quarterly. 26 (4) 1973, 454–459.

Harp, Richard and Stewart, Stanley, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2000.

Knapp, Peggy. "Ben Jonson and the Publicke Riot." ELH. 46 (4) 1979, 577–594.

Redwine, James D. Jr. "Beyond Psychology: The Moral Basis of Jonson's Theory of Humour Characterization." ELH. 28 (4) 1961, 316–334.

Riggs, David. Ben Jonson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989.

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