TY - BOOK AU - Jonson,Ben TI - The Alchemist AV - PR PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - English drama (Comedy) KW - English drama -- 17th century KW - London (England) -- Drama KW - City and town life -- Drama KW - Alchemists -- Drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(play); Release date is 2003-05-01; Produced by Amy E Zelmer, Robert Prince, Sue Asscher, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Alchemist" by Ben Jonson is a comedy first performed in 1610. When a plague forces a London gentleman to flee the city, his scheming butler transforms the empty house into a den of fraud. Teaming with a conman and a prostitute, he preys on the greed and ambitions of eager victims—a gambling clerk, a wealthy nobleman seeking the philosopher's stone, and religious zealots hoping to turn metal into gold. As deceptions multiply and schemes collide, the swindlers' elaborate house of cards grows dangerously unstable. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4081 ER -