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- Title
Seeing to Things in Volpone.
- Authors
Teague, Frances Nicol
- Abstract
Like the magnificence of Venetian art, emblem books and staged action formed a visual culture that persisted across national and linguistic boundaries, tying the Mediterranean to the European world at large. This essay briefly examines the emblem tradition behind Jonson's Volpone before considering how an awareness of stage action affects one's understanding of the play. Costumes, properties, stage furniture, and staging all contribute to the play. The appearance of Volpone has as much importance to an understanding of the work as does an analysis of its linguistic imagery or a consideration of the sources, literary conventions, or social context. Jonson did not provide details about costumes haphazardly, or shape the tagging of a scene unwittingly, or specify the use of a property without a reason. He wrote for an audience that would watch the play as well as for an audience that would read it.
- Subjects
VOLPONE (Play : Jonson); JONSON, Ben, ca. 1573-1637; FABLES; EMBLEM books; FIGURES of speech; THEATRICAL scenery
- Publication
Mediterranean Studies (Manchester University Press), 2010, Vol 19, Issue 1, p112
- ISSN
1074-164X
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.2307/mediterraneanstu.19.2010.0112