

The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic. The play is a sublimely accomplished satirical...



In none of Ben Jonson's plays is Renaissance heroic humanism converted to comic reality more obviously and successfully than in The Alchemist. Here the aspiration of the Renaissance to control and remake the world is imaged as a great swindle, alchemy. Jonson parodies...

Complete and unabridged, with an introduction by Felix E. Schelling and a new timeline of the life and times of Ben Jonson, this elegantly designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Alchemist is an essential collectible. First performed in 1610, The...

The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such...

-Large A4 (8.5 x11") version of this classic set text.-Formatted with wide line-spacing, wide margins and extra notes pages between chapters, this is a must-have for serious literature students. -Ideal for organising your responses and analysis in one place and practising close...


The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The...

The Alchemist has been described as 'the greatest farce in the English language'. In this edition, first published in 1995, Ben Jonson's rich play offers intriguing insights into London life of the early seventeenth century. He satirizes and celebrates the confusions and anarchy...



The Alchemisthas long been admired as one of Ben Jonson's best dramas; its satiric cleverness and metatheatricality have delighted audiences from its first performance to the present day. Audiences are swept up in the schemes of a fake alchemist and other determined fraudsters...

Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

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The Alchemist by Ben Jonson is a comedy play first performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's most characteristic comedy. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote...


Jonson's comic masterpiece, recently revived at the National Theatre with Simon Callow in the title role.






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