Books in the Broadview Anthology of British Literature Editions series

The Alchemist has long been admired as one of Ben Jonson's best dramas. This edition includes an introduction to the play, offering discussion of its performance history and background information on alchemy. Thorough annotations to the text are also provided, as are contextual materials.

"Among all manual arts used in this land, none is more famous for desert, or more beneficial to the commonwealth, than is the most necessary art of clothing." So begins Thomas Deloney's extraordinary prose narrative. It is an amiable and remarkably entertaining work of fiction - and also one that connects powerfully with the real world of sixteenth-century England.