This play centers on the attempts by Voltore, Corvino, and Corbaccio to win the inheritance of the title character, who pretends to be on his deathbed and is served by Mosca.
In this play, a man claims that "almost all the wise world is little else but parasites." Another character in this play is forced to wear donkey ears and paraded around the city. Earlier in this play, that character orders his wife to perform all things backwards after she throws her handkerchief at a man who sells a panacea while dis- guised as a mountebank named Scoto. In this play, Peregrine is thought to be a courtesan in disguise by the talkative Lady Politic Would-Be. This play centers on the attempts by Voltore, Corvino, and Corbaccio to win the inheritance of the title character, who pretends to be on his deathbed and is served by Mosca. For 10 points, name this play about a "Sly Fox" by Ben Jonson.
In this play, a man claims that "almost all the wise world is little else but parasites."
Volpone