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The Alchemist

Ben Jonson

  • Drama
  • Book language: English
  • 233 pages

The Alchemist is a comedy by Ben Jonson, first performed in the early 17th century. In London, a group of con artists use an absent household to sell fake alchemical schemes to gullible clients. It is worth listening for its sharp dialogue and satirical look at greed and credulity.

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THE ALCHEMIST
By Ben Jonson
Contents
INTRODUCTION
The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare,
the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of
verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of
all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of
English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his
strong personality assumes an interest to us almost

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Contents

  1. THE ALCHEMIST
  2. Contents
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. TO THE READER.
  5. DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
  6. ARGUMENT.
  7. PROLOGUE.
  8. ACT 1. SCENE 1.1.
  9. ACT 2. SCENE 2.1.
  10. ACT 3. SCENE 3.1.
  11. ACT 4. SCENE 4.1.
  12. ACT 5. SCENE 5.1.
  13. GLOSSARY
  14. PARTED, endowed, talented.
  15. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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