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Jonson marked a new scene whenever the entry or exit of a character changed the focus of interest. This, the classical or French system, is used by most editors. References to the text here follow Brockbank’s edition which uses this system. Some editors, however — for example, David Cook — prefer the modern English system. In this latter convention Act I, for example, has only one scene instead of five as in Jonson’s own organisation of the text.
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Hinchliffe, A.P. (1985). Introduction. In: Volpone. Text and Performance. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06536-3_1
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