by Ben Jonson · Methuen Drama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713630718
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«The Alchemist» is Ben Jonson's Elizabethan comedy, published by Methuen Drama in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Set in contemporary London, the play follows a group of con artists who set up a fake alchemy laboratory to deceive greedy clients, exposing human credulity and avarice. This edition from the New Mermaids series, edited by Elizabeth Cook, includes notes on the lexical, semantic and theatrical aspects of the text, aiding reading and study.
This 1991 edition is the second in the New Mermaids collection, revised by Elizabeth Cook. The play premiered in 1610 and was performed by the King's Men company.
Recommended for students of English literature and Renaissance theater, as well as readers wishing to approach Elizabethan comedy with the support of critical apparatus.
Ben Jonson was an English actor, poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614), and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I."
