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Unit 16: Volpone: Satire and all its Detailed Analysis and Comedy
Notes
16.4.7 Scene VII
16.4.8 Scene VIII
16.4.9 Scene IX
16.5 Act IV
16.5.1 Scene I
16.5.2 Scene II
16.5.3 Scene III
16.5.4 Scene IV
16.5.5 Scene V
16.5.6 Scene VI
16.6 Act V
16.6.1 Scene I
16.6.2 Scene II
16.6.3 Scene III
16.6.4 Scene IV
16.6.5 Scenes V-IX
16.6.6 Scenes X-XII
16.7 Summary
16.8 Keywords
16.9 Review Questions
16.10 Further Readings
Objectives
After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Explain that the play is a work of serious intellectual and moral weight;
• Illustrate the problem of protagonist—the play is a comedy, and protagonist in comedies should
generally end up happily;
• Summarize the series in all the acts;
• Analyse the satire scene by scene and act by act;
• Examine the construction of the scenes of the play;
• Explain the ironies used in the play.
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