"Turdy-facy-nasty-paty-lousy-fartical rogues": Mountebanks and Alchemists in Ben Johnson's "Volpone" and "The Alchemist"
- UNCA Author/Contributor (non-UNCA co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Margaret Kennedy (Creator)
- Institution
- University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA )
- Web Site: http://library.unca.edu/
- Advisor
- William Revere
Abstract: In this paper, the author examines Ben Jonson's "Volpone" and "The Alchemist", and considers how Jonson uses quack doctor figures to interrogate his own role of playwright, by allowing their medicinal endeavor to represent his morally curative work.
"Turdy-facy-nasty-paty-lousy-fartical rogues": Mountebanks and Alchemists in Ben Johnson's "Volpone" and "The Alchemist"
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Other
- Language: English
- Date: 2018
- Keywords
- Ben Jonson, playwright, quack doctor, mountebank