In this work, a character attempts to seduce another by claiming that she would have so many pearls she could afford to dissolve and drink them. When one character in this play makes up a story about spy baboons that live near China, another character claims that those are who the Mamelukes are. In Act Four of this play, mu
In this work, a character attempts to seduce another by claiming that she would have so many pearls she could afford to dissolve and drink them. When one character in this play makes up a story about spy baboons that live near China, another character claims that those are who the Mamelukes are. In Act Four of this play, multiple characters bear false witness against a woman at her (*) rape trial. The protagonist of this work disguises himself as a mountebank named Scoto. Sir Politic Would-Be appears in this work, in which the animal-inspired characters Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino scheme to be named the heir of the title character, whose servant is Mosca. For 10 points, name this comedy by about a Venetian nobleman who pretends to be dying, by Ben Jonson.
In this work, a character attempts to seduce another by claiming that she would have so many pearls she could afford to dissolve and drink them.
Volpone