The Alchemist (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Pollard, Tanya

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy. The play has been widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of the period's theatre; Coleridge famously described it as one of the three most perfect plots in literature. Yet it is a notoriously difficult play: its alchemical language has aged into obscurity, and its insiderly humour can seem impenetrable to students approaching it for the first time. This comprehensively annotated edition translates and illuminates the play's many pleasures and shows how Jonson's cynical, street-wise wit resonates with our contemporary sensibilities. Pollard highlights the play's witty ingenuity, while offering the information and guidance to enable students to understand and enjoy The Alchemist fully.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472526250
• Artikelnr.: 68549232

Autorenporträt

Tanya Pollard is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations General editors' preface Preface Introduction Jonson
in 1610 London Alchemy Sex, Generation and Family Literary Alchemy:
Collaborating with Authors Alchemy of Place: London, Blackfriars, Playhouse
Staging Revivals: Collaborating Across Periods Staging the Page: Textual
History Later Editions Folio Paratext THE ALCHEMIST Appendix: Casting The
Alchemist Abbreviations and References Abbreviations used in notes Works by
and partly by Shakespeare Works by and partly by Jonson Editions of The
Alchemist collated Other works cited Index