The Alchemist

ISBN-13: 9781554813674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Ben Jonson

Spis treści

• Introduction
• The Alchemist In Context
• On Alchemy: from Geoffrey Chaucer, 'The Canon's Yeoman's Tale,' from The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)
• Desiderius Erasmus, 'The Alchemist' (1524)
• from Martin Ruland, A Lexicon of Alchemy (1612)
• On Criminals and 'Coney-Catching': from Robert Greene, A Disputation Between a He Cony-Catcher and a She Cony-Catcher (1592)
• Image: from Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors vulgarly called Vagabonds (1566; revised 1567/68)
• On Playwriting: from Aristotle, Poetics
• from Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter as they have flowed out of his daily Readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar Notion of the Times (1641)