DIFFERENCES

1.Type Of Comedy
The main characteristics of a comedy of humours
is that the comedy is focused on the way in which
characters themselves represent one particular
vice, virtue or failing which defines them and their
actions in the play.
If we examine this darkly comic play, we can see
how naming plays a significant part in this. The
names of the three "suitors" are given to indicate
the way that they are beasts who hope to prey off
the corpse of Volpone. There is the crow, the
raven and the vulture, each of whom hope to
inherit the sick Volpone's wealth when he dies.
Their greed is emphased through their name.
Volpone is likewise defined by his greed, but also
by his intelligence in seeking to outwit those who
try to trick him. His name of the fox therefore is
excellent in defining his character.

This is not of course restricted to merely the evil

or bad characters in the play. Bonario literally
means "good man," and we can see from his rather
bombastic speech and actions that this
characteristic is what defines him.

2.Survival of the fittest

Theory of Darwin ‘’the survival of the fittest was This Darwinian survival of the fittest view of the
put forward world is something that is absent from
Volpone uses animals to represent his characters Shakespeare's comedy.
and to comment upon the greed that lies at the
heart of human society. The names Jonson uses
relate to the kind of role the character has in the
animal kingdom, with Volpone representing the
cunning fox who outsmarts the other less
intelligent predators around him, and Mosca
representing the fly who lives parasitically off the
triumphs of his master.
The characters in this play therefore are used by
Jonson to relate to his rather satirical view of the
world where characters are used and tricked by
other figures who are more intelligent than them.

3.Importance of Female Characters

4.The Main is not about Love

5.Fools
6.Lots of Sub-Plots

7. Incomplete picture of life
Unlike Shakespeare, Jonson gives a distorted or
incomplete picture of life. In Volpone everything is
subsidiary to the humor of avarice, which receives
unnatural emphasis.
Not only Bassanio personal life but all his social
life was completely shown, even including his
financial conditions before and after marriage.

SIMILARITIES

1.Elizabethan Drama

Both of these plays are fine examples of the genre

of comedy set in the time of Elizabethan drama.
So both have dealt with the issues of money.

2.Use of Slapstick Comedy

Both are similar in the way that slapstick comedy
is combined with typical devices such as mistaken
identity and appearance vs. reality. Thus the
audience is presented with images of Volpone
both pretending to be sick and ill.

3.Venician Society and Aim

His purpose was to reform society through satire

4.Themes carrying the weightier issues

5.Music

6.Element of Disguise

7.Instantaneous Conversion

8.Happy Ending