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246 pages • paperback • first pub 1612 • 28 editions
ISBN/UID: 9780300017366
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Edition Pub Date: 10 Sep 1974
Description
In none of Ben Jonson's plays is Renaissance heroic humanism converted to comic reality more obviously and successfully than in The Alchemist. Here the aspiration of the Renaissance to control and remake the world is imaged as a great swindle, alc...
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246 pages • paperback • 1612
ISBN/UID: 9780300017366
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Edition Pub Date: 10 Sep 1974
Description
In none of Ben Jonson's plays is Renaissance heroic humanism converted to comic reality more obviously and successfully than in The Alchemist. Here the aspiration of the Renaissance to control and remake the world is imaged as a great swindle, alc...