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The Alchemist and Other Plays by Ben Jonson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Alchemist and Other Plays by Ben Jonson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Alchemist and Other Plays by Ben Jonson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Alchemist and Other Plays by Ben Jonson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice. The first production of Epicene marked the end of a year long closure of thetheatres because of an epidemic of the plague in 1609; its comedy affirms the consolatory power of laughter at such a time. The Alchemist (1610) deploys the metaphors of alchemical transformation to emphasize the mutability of the characters and their relationships. In Bartholomew Fair (1614)Jonson embroils the visitors to the fair in its myriad tempations, exposing the materialistic impulses beneath the apparent godliness of Jacobean Puritans. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. Stage directions hvae been added to facilitate the reconstruction of the plays' performance, and there is a scholarlyintroduction, detailed annotation, and a glossary. | The Alchemist and Other Plays by Ben Jonson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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