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Ben Jonson
Jonson was an English playwright, poet and literary critic in the 17th century.
The Alchemist
Synopsis
In a London house left empty by its owner, a servant partners with a fraudulent alchemist and his companion to run a string of cons on a parade of gullible visitors — a knight chasing the philosopher's stone, quarrelsome Puritans, an ambitious tobacconist, and more. Ben Jonson's fast-moving 1610 comedy of greed and gullibility.
Genres
Characters
FaceProtagonist
Lovewit's butler, who runs the scheme under a false captain's identity while his master is away.
SubtleSupporting
The fraudulent alchemist, learned in real alchemical lore and constantly at odds with Face.
Doll CommonSupporting
Face and Subtle's co-conspirator.
Sir Epicure MammonCameo
A wealthy, gluttonous knight chasing the philosopher's stone.