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The Alchemist (Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition) - Softcover

Jonson, Ben

 
9781554813674: The Alchemist (Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1554813670 ISBN 13: 9781554813674
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

The Alchemist has 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 whose scams appear to offer easy wealth and immortality. 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 features a helpful introduction to the play, thorough annotations, and contextual materials including a selection of Jonson’s sources, further materials on alchemy, and an example of “rogue” or “coney-catching” literature.

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John Greenwood is an instructor at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo.

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The Alchemist has 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 whose scams appear to offer easy wealth and immortality. 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 features a helpful introduction to the play, thorough annotations, and contextual materials including a selection of Jonson's sources, further materials on alchemy, and an example of "rogue" or "coney-catching" literature.

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Verlag
Broadview Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1554813670
ISBN 13 
9781554813674
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
203
Herausgeber
Greenwood John
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