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The Alchemist de Ben Jonson

The Alchemist

Autor Ben Jonson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2007

Putem afirma că Ben Jonson rămâne, după patru secole, figura centrală a dramaturgiei engleze iacobiene, autoritatea sa fiind consolidată de o rigoare clasică și o capacitate satirică de neegalat. În această ediție publicată de Broadview Press, găsim The Alchemist nu doar ca text dramatic, ci ca un nod cultural complex, descifrat prin grija editorială a lui John Greenwood și Elizabeth Cook. Spre deosebire de alte ediții pur literare, acest volum ancorează piesa în realitățile istorice ale Londrei din 1610, oferind studenților și cercetătorilor instrumentele necesare pentru a înțelege mecanismele înșelătoriei și ale pseudo-științei vremii.

Structura cărții este concepută progresiv: după o introducere biografică și critică, textul piesei beneficiază de adnotări amănunțite chiar pe pagina de lectură, facilitând descifrarea jargonului alchimic și a argoului criminal. Secțiunea „In Context” este însă elementul distinctiv, oferind fragmente din Geoffrey Chaucer și Erasmus, care demonstrează cum tema alchimiei a evoluat în literatura europeană. Cititorii familiarizați cu The Alchemist and Other Plays din seria Oxford World's Classics vor aprecia aici profunzimea materialelor secundare, în special documentele despre „coney-catching” (escrocherii stradale), care explică substratul social al personajelor Face și Subtle.

Raportată la restul operei sale, precum Volpone, Or, the Fox sau Every Man in His Humor, această lucrare rafinează „comedia umorilor”, transformând obsesiile umane în spectacol pur. Dacă în Bartholomew Fair Jonson explorează haosul festiv, în The Alchemist el demonstrează o stăpânire perfectă a unității de timp și spațiu, creând o satiră matematică despre cum lăcomia suspendă rațiunea.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781426413513
ISBN-10: 1426413513
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 121 x 197 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
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De ce să citești această carte

Această ediție este ideală pentru studenții la filologie și pasionații de teatru renascentist care doresc mai mult decât textul piesei. Prin includerea surselor istorice despre alchimie și viața interlopă a Londrei, cititorul câștigă o perspectivă 360 de grade asupra universului lui Jonson. Este o resursă academică ce transformă o lectură dificilă într-o experiență de descifrare culturală fascinantă.

Despre autor

Benjamin Jonson (1572–1637) a fost un dramaturg, poet și critic englez, considerat cel mai important contemporan al lui Shakespeare. Cu o educație clasică solidă sub îndrumarea lui William Camden, Jonson a impus rigoarea formelor antice în teatrul englez, devenind primul „poet laureat” și un arbitru al gustului literar. Viața sa a fost marcată de controverse, de la dueluri mortale până la perioade de detenție, elemente care i-au alimentat realismul cinic și satira socială. Este cel care a teoretizat „comedia umorilor”, lăsând posterității capodopere care analizează viciile umane cu o precizie aproape chirurgicală.

Descriere scurtă

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Descriere

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The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic. The play is a sublimely accomplished satirical farce about people's diverse dreams of self-refinement: they all want to transform themselves into something nobler, richer, more powerful, more virile, just as base metal was supposed to be transformed into gold in the alchemical process. During their master's absence from the house, the con-artists Face, Subtle and Doll Common dupe a series of 'customers' whose greed leads them to believe in the existence of the fabled Philosopher's Stone. As their equipment boils over and blows up in the offstage kitchen, so their plot heats up and is exploded by the skeptical Surly and the arrival of their master - who quietly pockets their proceeds and marries the rich widow to boot.




The lively introduction focuses on the play as a comedy about swindlers and characters on the margins of society. It highlights Jonson's craft as a dramatist and his masterful use of language, building into the play all actors and directors need to know about its characters and action. With helpful on-page commentary notes, this student edition also discusses the play in its theatrical and historical context and traces its connections to modern theatre, bringing its farcical comedy vividly to life.

Recenzii

The Alchemist has long been admired as one of Ben Jonson’s best dramas; its satiric cleverness and metatheatricality have delighted audiences from its first performance to the present day. Audiences are swept up in the schemes of a fake alchemist and other determined fraudsters whose scams appear to offer easy wealth and immortality. While no characters emerge unscathed by Jonson’s satire, and while alchemy itself is revealed as most likely a sham, the play is nonetheless a tribute to the transformative—indeed, the alchemical—powers of the theater. This edition features a helpful introduction to the play, thorough annotations, and contextual materials including a selection of Jonson’s sources, further materials on alchemy, and an example of “rogue” or “coney-catching” literature.

“Introducing students to this witty, farcical play will be so much easier with the new Broadview edition. The joy of this play is its topical satire, and to access it students need a thorough grounding in alchemy and in the contemporary culture of early modern London, both of which this edition provides.” — Margaret J. Oakes, Furman University
“The new Broadview edition of The Alchemist, edited by John Greenwood, is a delight. The play’s annotations are clear and complete. The edition includes extensive contextual materials, including coney-catching pamphlets, an alchemist’s guide, and some of Jonson’s own commonplace book’s entries. I am looking forward to teaching the play with this exciting new text.” — Rebecca Ann Bach, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“John Greenwood’s edition of Ben Jonson’s riotous early modern comedy, The Alchemist, captures the play’s essentials for student and more advanced scholar alike with its concise and informative introduction, helpful notes, and judiciously chosen appendix material. The edition will be a delight to use in the classroom.” — Mathew Martin, Brock University
“Kelly Stage’s edition of Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl and John Greenwood’s of Jonson’s The Alchemist, both from the Broadview Press, are convenient, handsome volumes … Each of the editors contributes a framing introduction to their play, and these also strike a Goldilocks standard, with a short biography of the playwrights and enough other background information to get a reader underway. Their common tone is informative, brisk, and accessible.” — William N. West, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

Cuprins

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, Whether a Thief or a Whore Is Most Hurtful in Cozenage to the Commonwealth. Discovering the secret villainies of alluring strumpets, With the conversion of an English courtesan, reformed this present year, 1592. Read, laugh and learn. Nascimur pro patria. R.G. (1592)
    • Image: from Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors vulgarely called Vagabonds (1566; revised 1567/68)
  • On Playwriting
    • from Aristotle’s Poetics
    • from 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)