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		<title>&#8220;Volpone:&#8221; Medieval Bestiaries &amp; Reynard the Fox</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Honold There is a reason that the characters in Volpone behave like beasts: one of Jonson&#8217;s sources was beast fables that dated back to antiquity. The most popular of these were Aesop&#8217;s fables. He began the practice of giving animals human characteristics to impart moral lessons. In the Middle Ages, monks picked up the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=180&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greed in &#8220;Volpone&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Honold &#8220;Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.&#8221; &#8212; Gordon Gekko, Wall Street Gordon Gekko’s infamous Wall Street speech perfectly captures the motivations of the central characters in Volpone. They are all greedy for something: money, station, sex, acclaim. Corvino is willing to prostitute his own wife. Voltore suborns and commits perjury. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=178&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Volponse&#8221; Production History &amp; Trivia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[• The play premiered with the King’s Men at the Globe Theatre in 1606. Jonson had almost certainly used long-time collaborators John Lowin and Alexander Cooke, but who played what roles is unknown. A plague outbreak limited its production the next year to Oxford and Cambridge, audiences that would appreciate his just-added Pythagoras satire. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=176&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Jonson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Honold Ben Jonson (1572 – 1637) was the “highbrow” playwright to his “lowbrow” friend and rival, William Shakespeare. He was well-read and his intelligence comes out in his biting satire. His father was a clergyman who died just before he was born. His mother soon remarried a local bricklayer. Jonson attended school at St. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=174&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Volpone&#8221; Marketing Blurbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short: Greed. Pride. Volpone. In this darkly comic fable about age-old vices, a sly fox and his parasite exploit the greedy with embarrassing and hilarious results. Then, Volpone sees a young beauty and is consumed with lust. The stakes grow ever higher and betrayals reveal “polite society” as savage beasts. Long: Greed. Pride. Volpone. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=171&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dialects in Huck Finn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Honold In the preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain gives a brief statement about regional dialects: “In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=166&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Miller: King of the River</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Honold Roger Miller was once asked how he wanted to be remembered; he fired back with “I don’t want to be forgotten.” The idea of that happening is unlikely. His quirky, fast-paced, and witty nature is reflected in the eclectic quality of his work.  At the very least, he is notable for being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=164&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Race in &#8220;Huckleberry Finn&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edited by Barry Honold The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (set in the 1840s) was published in 1885, after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. It was the beginning of the Jim Crow era and open racial resentment, especially in the South. The routine use of the denigrating word “n****r” was part of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=162&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Proof:&#8221; Carl Friedrich Gauss &amp; Sophie Germain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Honold Author Elizabeth Klaver asks, why does “Auburn choose the prime numbers and not some other area of mathematics?” Her answer: Sophie Germain, Catherine’s character, and Germain Primes provide a rather “nice connection.” Catherine is working on a proof involving prime numbers. Germain was one of the first professionally-accepted female mathematicians, and her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=145&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Proof:&#8221; Fermat, Wiles, &amp; Auburn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Honold David Auburn, in deciding how much math to include in Proof, had to strike a delicate balance: though math is an integral part of the story, it is not a “math play.” However, he did try “to get in as much kind of math lore as possible” One central theme is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dramaturgicalresources.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5452363&amp;post=142&amp;subd=dramaturgicalresources&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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