The Alchemist » (Revised Edition)

The editor, Elizabeth Cook, is the author of the fiction Achilles editor of Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl for the New Mermaids and of the Oxford Authors' John Keats. She has lectured at the universities of Essex and Leeds.

This Cambridge Literature study text of Ben Jonson's play offers intriguing insights into London life of the early seventeenth century.

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Reprint of the Methuen edition published in 1967. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

General editor's preface
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. Life and Character
2. Alchemy
3. The Play
4. Jonson's Verse
5. Stage History
6. The Text

The Alchemist
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