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Characters

• Volpone (the Big Fox) – a greedy, childless Venetian nobleman
• Mosca (the Fly) – his servant
• Voltore (the Vulture) – a lawyer
• Corbaccio (the Raven) – an avaricious old miser
• Bonario – Corbaccio's son
• Corvino (the Carrion Crow) – a merchant
• Celia – Corvino's wife
• Sir Politic Would-Be – ridiculous Englishman. Probably partly based on Sir Henry Wotton, [1]and partly on the traveller, Anthony Sherley.
• Lady Would-Be (the parrot) – English lady and wife of Sir Politic-Would-Be
• Peregrine – another, more sophisticated, English traveller
• Nano – a dwarf, companion of Volpone
• Androgyno – a hermaphrodite, companion of Volpone
• Castrone – a eunuch, companion of Volpone
• The Avocatori – the judges of Venice