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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns and the three turn against each other.

Ben Jonson's classic comedy The Alchemist was first performed by the King's Men in 1610.

This edition of the play in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is edited by Simon Trussler, with an introduction by Colin Counsell.



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The Alchemist

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      Publisher Nick Hern Books
      Published 19 September 1996
      ISBN-13 9781854592620
      978-1854592620
      ISBN-10 1854592629
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      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

      Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns and the three turn against each other.

      Ben Jonson's classic comedy The Alchemist was first performed by the King's Men in 1610.

      This edition of the play in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is edited by Simon Trussler, with an introduction by Colin Counsell.



      Trade Review

      'Ben Jonson's comedy of dupes and conmen couldn't be more contemporary'

      * Time Out *

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