Proper noun
Volpone (plural Volpones)
A surname from Italian.
A solo artist usually needed months to write a play (though Jonson is said to have done Volpone in five weeks); Henslowe's Diary indicates that a team of four or five writers could produce a play in as little as two weeks. Source: Internet
The First Folio of 1623, however, lists Shakespeare as one of "the Principal Actors in all these Plays", some of which were first staged after Volpone, although we cannot know for certain which roles he played. Source: Internet
The Alchemist and Volpone were immediately successful. Source: Internet