This production of Volpone tries so hard to be funny that it almost never is. There’s one notable exception. In Ben Jonson’s 1606 script, a wealthy, childless man named Volpone pretends he’s dying and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Greed that overreaches and causes its own undoing is the primary target of Ben Jonson’s 1606 satire, “Volpone.” Considering the ongoing global financial crisis, it’s clear that classic ...

The title character of Ben Jonson’s satire on materialism is a vulgar Venetian whose craving for applause betrays his insecurity. The play may date from 1606, but Sir Trevor Nunn’s lively production ...

The Honey Pot is yet another modern-day version of Ben Jonson’s classic, Volpone. Written in 1606, the Elizabethan comedy chronicles the rise and fall of a wily miser who pretends to be dying in order ...

First performed at the Globe Theatre in early 1606, perhaps just weeks before the premiere of Macbeth, Ben Jonson’s timeless satire Volpone explores the insatiable desire for advancement and power ...

Am Mittwoch, den 31. März, feiert mit VOLPONE, dem 1606 geschriebenen, bekanntesten Stück des englischen Dramatikers Ben Jonson, eine Inszenierung von Werner Düggelin im Pfauen Premiere. Die Rolle des ...

Avarice—the bottomless, Bernie Madoff kind—is the driving force behind Ben Jonson’s 1606 satire. Volpone (the waggish Stephen Spinella) worships his gold, and his callers, gunning for a place in his ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Greed that overreaches and causes its own undoing is the primary target of Ben Jonson's 1606 satire, "Volpone." Considering the ongoing global financial crisis, it's clear that classic ...