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Ben Jonson The Alchemist (Paperback). This edition includes a helpful introduction to the play, including discussion of its performance history and background information on alchemy. Thorough annotations to the text are also provided, as are contextual materials, including a selection of Jonson's sources, further materials on alchemy, and an example of the 'rogue' or 'coney-catching' literature that informs Jonson's portrayal of the grifters in the play. Further DetailsTitle: The Alchemist Condition: New Author: Ben Jonson Contributor: John Greenwood (Edited by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1554813670 EAN: 9781554813674 ISBN: 9781554813674 Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd Genre: Poetry & Drama Topic: Literary Criticism Release Date: 06/01/2020 Description: The Alchemist has long been admired as one of Ben Jonson's best dramas-Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously deemed it one of the most 'perfect' plots in literature. Its satiric cleverness and metatheatricality have delighted audiences from its first performance to the present day; readers and play-goers are swept up in the schemes of a fake alchemist and other determined fraudsters whose scams appear to offer easy wealth and immortality to their morally compromised victims. While no characters emerge unscathed by Jonson's satire, and while alchemy itself is revealed as most likely a sham, the play is nonetheless a tribute to the transformative - indeed, the alchemical-powers of the theater.This edition includes a helpful introduction to the play, including discussion of its performance history and background information on alchemy. Thorough annotations to the text are also provided, as are contextual materials, including a selection of Jonson's sources, further materials on alchemy, and an example of the 'rogue' or 'coney-catching' literature that informs Jonson's portrayal of the grifters in the play. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 216mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 12mm Item Weight: 215g Series: Broadview Anthology of British Literature Editions Release Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
