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The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
Alchemist" is generally considered as one of the most characteristic and best comedy and satire on the vices of the society.The play cleverly fulfils the classical unities and clearly depicts the vices of the society. Due to its rebellion against false religious practices, this play is considered as one ...Show more
The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or the Fox; Epicene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholemew Fair by Ben Jonson
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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 the theatres becaus ...Show more
The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
Category: Classics | Series: Drama Classics S.
A great neglected comedy by the great Elizabethan/jacobean playwright.
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