plot of Volpone DR/ Mohsen gabr

Plot Overview


Volpone takes place in seventeenth-century Venice,
over the course of one day. The play opens at the house of Volpone, a Venetian
nobleman. He and his "parasite" Mosca—part slave, part servant, part
lackey—enter the shrine where Volpone keeps his gold. Volpone has amassed his
fortune, we learn, through dishonest means: he is a con artist. And we also
learn that he likes to use his money extravagantly.



[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]


Soon, we see Volpone's latest con in action. For
the last three years, he has been attracting the interest of three legacy
hunters: Voltore, a lawyer; Corbaccio, an old gentleman; and Corvino, a
merchant—individuals interested in inheriting his estate after he dies. Volpone
is known to be rich, and he is also known to be childless, have no natural
heirs. Furthermore, he is believed to very ill, so each of the legacy hunters
lavishes gifts on him, in the hope that Volpone, out of gratitude, will make him
his heir. The legacy hunters do not know that Volpone is actually in excellent
health and merely faking illness for the purpose of collecting all those
impressive "get-well" gifts.

In the first act, each legacy hunter arrives to
present a gift to Volpone, except for Corbaccio, who offers only a worthless
(and probably poisoned) vial of medicine. But Corbaccio agrees to return later
in the day to make Volpone his heir, so that Volpone will return the favor. This
act is a boon to Volpone, since Corbaccio, in all likelihood, will die long
before Volpone does. After each hunter leaves, Volpone and Mosca laugh at each's
gullibility. After Corvino's departure Lady Politic Would-be, the wife of an
English knight living in Venice, arrives at the house but is told to come back
three hours later. And Volpone decides that he will try to get a close look at
Corvino's wife, Celia, who Mosca describes as one of the most beautiful women in
all of Italy. She is kept under lock and key by her husband, who has ten guards
on her at all times, but Volpone vows to use disguise to get around these
barriers.

The second act portrays a time just a short while
later that day, and we meet Sir Politic Would-be, Lady Politic's husband, who is
conversing with Peregrine, an young English traveler who has just landed in
Venice. Sir Politic takes a liking to the young boy and vows to teach him a
thing or two about Venice and Venetians; Peregrine, too, enjoys the company of
Sir Politic, but only because he is hilariously gullible and vain. The two are
walking in the public square in front of Corvino's house and are interrupted by
the arrival of "Scoto Mantua," actually Volpone in diguise as an Italian
mountebank, or medicine-show man. Scoto engages in a long and colorful speech,
hawking his new "oil", which is touted as a cure-all for disease and suffering.
At the end of the speech, he asks the crows to toss him their handkerchiefs, and
Celia complies. Corvino arrives, just as she does this, and flies into a jealous
rage, scattering the crows in the square. Volpone goes home and complains to
Mosca that he is sick with lust for Celia, and Mosca vows to deliver her to
Volpone. Meanwhile, Corvino berates his wife for tossing her handkerchief, since
he interprets it as a sign of her unfaithfulness, and he threatens to murder her
and her family as a result. He decrees that, as punishment, she will now no
longer be allowed to go to Church, she cannot stand near windows (as she did
when watching Volpone), and, most bizarrely, she must do everything backwards
from now on–she must even walk and speak backwards. Mosca then arrives, implying
to Corvino that if he lets Celia sleep with Volpone (as a "restorative" for
Volpone's failing health), then Volpone will choose him as his heir. Suddenly,
Corvino's jealousy disappears, and he consents to the offer.

The third act begins with a soliloquy from Mosca,
indicating that he is growing increasingly conscious of his power and his
independence from Volpone. Mosca then runs into Bonario, Corbaccio's son, and
informs the young man of his father's plans to disinherit him. He has Bonario
come back to Volpone's house with him, in order to watch Corbaccio sign the
documents (hoping that Bonario might kill Corbaccio then and there out of rage,
thus allowing Volpone to gain his inheritance early). Meanwhile Lady Politic
again arrives at Volpone's residence, indicating that it is now mid-morning,
approaching noon. This time, Volpone lets her in, but he soon regrets it, for he
is exasperated by her talkativeness. Mosca rescues Volpone by telling the Lady
that Sir Politic has been seen in a gondola with a courtesan (a high-class
prostitute). Volpone then prepares for his seduction of Celia, while Mosca hides
Bonario in a corner of the bedroom, in anticipation of Corbaccio's arrival. But
Celia and Corvino arrive first—Celia complains bitterly about being forced to be
unfaithful, while Corvino tells her to be quiet and do her job. When Celia and
Volpone are alone together, Volpone greatly surprises Celia by leaping out of
bed. Celia had expected and old, infirm man, but what she gets instead is a
lothario who attempts to seduce her with a passionate speech. Always the good
Christian, Celia refuses Volpone's advances, at which point Volpone says that he
will rape her. But Bonario, who has been witnessing the scene from his hiding
place the entire time, rescues Celia. Bonario wounds Mosca on his way out.
Corbaccio finally arrives, too late, as does Voltore. Mosca plots, with
Voltore's assistance, how to get Volpone out of this mess.

A short while later, in the early afternoon,
Peregrine and Sir Politic are still talking. Sir Politic gives the young
traveler some advice on living in Venice and describes several schemes he has
under consideration for making a great deal of money. They are soon interrupted
by Lady Politic, who is convinced that Peregrine is the prostitute Mosca told
her about—admittedly, in disguise. But Mosca arrives and tells Lady Politic that
she is mistaken; the courtesan he referred to is now in front of the Senate (in
other words, Celia). Lady Politic believes him and ends by giving Peregrine a
seductive goodbye with a coy suggestion that they see each other again.
Peregrine is incensed at her behavior and vows revenge on Sir Politic because of
it. The scene switches to the Scrutineo, the Venetian Senate building, where
Celia and Bonario have informed the judges of Venice about Volpone's deceit,
Volpone's attempt to rape Celia, Corbaccio's disinheritance of his son, and
Corvino's decision to prostitute his wife. But the defendants make a very good
case for themselves, led by their lawyer, Voltore. Voltore portrays Bonario and
Celia as lovers, Corvino as an innocent jilted husband, and Corbaccio as a
wounded father nearly killed by his evil son. The judge are swayed when Lady
Politic comes in and (set up perfectly by Mosca) identifies Celia as the seducer
of her husband Sir Politic. Further, they are convinced when Volpone enters the
courtroom, again acting ill. The judges order that Celia and Bonario be arrested
and separated.



[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]


In the final act, Volpone returns home tired and
worried that he is actually growing ill, for he is now feeling some of the
symptoms he has been faking. To dispel his fears, he decides to engage in one
final prank on the legacy hunters. He spreads a rumor that he has died and then
tells Mosca to pretend that he has been made his master's heir. The plan goes
off perfectly, and all three legacy hunters are fooled. Volpone then disguises
himself as a Venetian guard, so that he can gloat in each legacy hunter's face
over their humiliation, without being recognized. But Mosca lets the audience
know that Volpone is dead in the eyes of the world and that Mosca will not let
him "return to the world of the living" unless Volpone pays up, giving Mosca a
share of his wealth.

Meanwhile, Peregrine is in disguise himself,
playing his own prank on Sir Politic. Peregrine presents himself as a merchant
to the knight and informs Politic that word has gotten out of his plan to sell
Venice to the Turks. Politic, who once mentioned the idea in jest, is terrified.
When three merchants who are in collusion with Peregrine knock on the door,
Politic jumps into a tortoise-shell wine case to save himself. Peregrine informs
the merchants when they enter that he is looking at a valuable tortoise. The
merchants decide to jump on the tortoise and demand that it crawls along the
floor. They remark loudly upon its leg-garters and fine hand-gloves, before
turning it over to reveal Sir Politic. Peregrine and the merchants go off,
laughing at their prank, and Sir Politic moans about how much he agrees with his
wife's desire to leave Venice and go back to England.

Meanwhile, Volpone gloats in front of each legacy
hunter, deriding them for having lost Volpone's inheritance to a parasite such
as Mosca, and he successfully avoids recognition. But his plan backfires
nonetheless. Voltore, driven to such a state of distraction by Volpone's
teasing, decides to recant his testimony in front of the Senate, implicating
both himself but more importantly Mosca as a criminal. Corvino accuses him of
being a sore loser, upset that Mosca has inherited Volpone's estate upon his
death, and the news of this death surprises the Senators greatly. Volpone nearly
recovers from his blunder by telling Voltore, in the middle of the Senate
proceeding, that "Volpone" is still alive. Mosca pretends to faint and claims to
the Senate that he does not know where he is, how he got there, and that he must
have been possessed by a demon during the last few minutes when he was speaking
to them. He also informs the Senators that Volpone is not dead, contradicting
Corvino. All seems good for Volpone until Mosca returns, and, instead of
confirming Voltore's claim that Volpone is alive, Mosca denies it. Mosca, after
all, has a will, written by Volpone and in his signaure, stating that he is
Volpone's heir. now that Volpone is believed to be dead, Mosca legally owns
Volpone's property, and Mosca tells Volpone that he is not going to give it back
by telling the truth. Realizing that he has been betrayed, Volpone decides that
rather than let Mosca inherit his wealth, he will turn them both in. Volpone
takes off his disguise and finally reveals the truth about the events of the
past day. Volpone ends up being sent to prison, while Mosca is consigned to a
slave galley. Voltore is disbarred, Corbaccio is stripped of his property (which
is given to his son Bonario), and Corvino is publicly humiliated, forced to wear
donkey's ears while being rowed around the canals of Venice. At the end, there
is a small note from the playwright to the audience, simply asking them to
applaud if they enjoyed the play they just saw.[/size]

يارب الكلام يكون سهل عليكم وان شاء الله انا موجود ف الخدمه وتحت امركم جميعاً

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[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]