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The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair (Oxford World's Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Ben Jonson, Gordon Campbell (Editor) Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953731-3 / 0199537313 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953731-0 / 9780199537310 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 be |