The Alchemist (Record no. 39477)
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| fixed length control field | 01645nam a22001817a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780713671049 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 822.3 |
| Item number | JON/T |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Johnson, Ben |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Alchemist |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 2nd. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | A&C Black |
| Year of publication | 2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 185p. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | New Mermaids |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The alchemist is considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy. It was first performed in 1610 by king’s men. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a great romantic poet, claimed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The players clever fulfilment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays barring the works of Shakespeare, with continuing performances on stage, except for a period of neglect during the Victorian era. The play concerns a wily servant, face, who develops a Scheme to make money while his master is away in the countryside. He gives access to his masters house to a charlatan named subtle and a prostitute named doll. Subtle disguises himself as an alchemist, with face as his servant; doll disguises herself as a zealous Puritan. Together, the three of them gull and cheat an assortment of foolish clients. By the end of the play, ‘the alchemist’, love wit returns to find his house in moral disarray. Jonson ends the play with Jeremy begging the audience for forgiveness. The alchemist presents us with a satirical window through which we can see the way in which alchemy was perceived in the opening decade of the 17th century. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | English drama-Elizabethan period |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cook, Elizabeth, ed. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Lost status | |
| Damaged status | Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 11/05/2016 | 5.99 | 822.3 JON/T | 40639 | BK |