The Alchemist: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides) - Softcover

Bloomsbury

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780938292 ISBN 13: 9781780938295

Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare, 2013

Synopsis

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research.

Key features include:
- Essays on the play's critical and performance history
- A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play
- A survey of resources to direct further reading about the play in print and online

The eponymous alchemist of Ben Jonson's quick-fire comedy is a fraud: he cannot make gold, but he does make brilliant theatre. The Alchemist is a masterpiece of wit and form about the self-delusions of greed and the theatricality of deception. This guide will be useful to a diverse assembly of students and scholars, offering fresh new ways into this challenging and fascinating play.

About this title

About the Author

Erin Julian is a Doctoral Student at McMaster University, Canada.

Helen Ostovich is Professor of English at McMaster University, Canada. She is the editor of a number of editions of Ben Jonson's plays and founding editor of the journal Early Theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780938292
• ISBN 13: 9781780938295
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Erin Julian, Helen Ostovich