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The Alchemist and Other Plays Volpone or the Fox Epicene or the Silent Woman The Alchemist Bartholemew Fair - Oxford World's Classics Author: This 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... more »
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