PL v Volpone Critics Reversed

Question 1

‘Jonson attempts to generate moral impulses in his audience by dramatizing a world which has lost all ability to do so’

Answer 1

Hiscock

Question 2

‘Milton’s effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful’

Answer 2

Carey

Question 3

‘Volpone is a satanic challenger to God’s order and society’s’

Answer 3

Knapp

Question 4

Both ‘Volpone’ and ‘Paradise Lost’ ‘induce a sympathetic understanding of villainy without sentimentalising the villain’

Answer 4

Campbell

Question 5

Milton appears to have ‘a Turkish contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings’

Answer 5

Dr Johnson

Question 6

‘Small language effects can trick the reader into heretic thinking’

Answer 6

Stanley Fish

Question 7

‘Milton was of the devil’s party without knowing it’

Answer 7

William Blake

Question 8

‘Passion as a result of flattery rules her reason’

Answer 8

Weston on Eve

Question 9

Volpone is a ‘gigantic satire on acting itself’

Answer 9

Niell

Question 10

‘Volpone’s vices sparkle so brightly they almost mask the darkness of his depravity’

Answer 10

Clare Brennan

Question 11

‘Celia’s desire to be a martyr to charity comes across as a masochistic response to voyeur fistic sadism’

Answer 11

McAvoy

Question 12

Audience applauded rape scene

Used animal costumes

Answer 12

Tyrone Guthrie 1964 production of Volpone in Minneapolis