The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature.
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The Alchemist, comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson, performed in 1610 and published in 1612. The play concerns the turmoil of deception that ensues when Lovewit leaves his London house in the care of his scheming servant, Face. With the aid of a fraudulent alchemist named Subtle and his companion,
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The Alchemist is an early modern comedic play written by Ben Jonson and originally performed in 1610 at Oxford by the King’s Men, a group most associated with Shakespeare.
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City Theatre at Sacramento City College brings Ben Jonson's popular comedy The Alchemist to the stage in a new adaptation. Adrienne Sher adapts and directs the play highlighting the humor in Jonson's ...
Red Bull Theater presents the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's new adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. The production, which officially opens November 21 following previews that began ...
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