The Alchemist by Ben Jonson PAPERBACK 9781554813674

Broadview Press Ltd

The Alchemist\nby Ben Jonson\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 5\u20136 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ben Jonson\nTitle: The Alchemist\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: plays and playwrights\nPublisher: Broadview Press Ltd\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781554813674\nISBN-10: 1554813670\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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 i.