The Alchemist

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The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in all of literature. The plays clever fulfilment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays (except the works of Shakespeare) with a continuing life on stage, apart from a period of neglect during the Victorian era.

The plot, like his other play Volpone, or the Foxe, deal with man s folly in pursuit of wealth. In The Alchemist, a character named Face sets about London deceiving a steady stream of dupes as he goes about dispensing spurious potions and charms. While Face s goal is ostensibly wealth, in Johnson s able hands, the play really deals with those who want to change their station in life, to make themselves into gold. The servant longs to be a master and the ordinary man to be a magician. It s Johnson s genius that allows this dark unfulfilled desire to be an entertaining and humorous life lesson in the end.

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