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The Alchemist

Author: Jonson, Ben
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Tags: Drama Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Plays / Drama
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Language: English
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Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4081

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This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction,... Show all...

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