Volpone and the Confessio Amantis
- Author/Editor
- Friedenreich, Kenneth
- Title
- Volpone and the Confessio Amantis
- Published
- Friedenreich, Kenneth. "Volpone and the Confessio Amantis." South Central Bulletin 37 (1977), pp. 147-150.
- Review
- In 1927, Karl Brunner recognized the CA as a source for Ben Jonson's "Volpone," an attribution disregarded by subsequent editors. Friedenreich believes that Brunner was right in pointing to a story from Book 5 of the CA where a greedy steward panders his wife to the king. In Volpone, too, sleeping with a young woman is proposed as a medical remedy, and a number of verbal parallels between the two accounts are quite striking. Other connections between the two works include references to avarice and jealousy, two themes of Gower's Book 5. [CvD]
- Date
- 1977
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
- Influence and Later Allusion