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The Alchemist

By Tanya Pollard (Editor), Suzanne Gossett (Editor), Gordon McMullan (Editor), John Jowett (Editor)
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By Tanya Pollard (Editor), Suzanne Gossett (Editor), Gordon McMullan (Editor), John Jowett (Editor)
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A fast—paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy. The play has been widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of the period's theatre; Coleridge famously described it as one of the three most perfect plots in literature. Yet it is a notoriously difficult play: its alchemical language has aged into obscurity, and its insiderly humour can seem impenetrable to students a...

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