Alchemist: A Critical Reader

Erin Julian is a Doctoral Student at McMaster University, Canada.Helen Ostovich is Professor of English at McMaster University, Canada. She is the editor of a number of editions of Ben Jonson's plays and founding editor of the journal Early Theatre.

The Alchemist, A Critical Reader is an excellent source for a teacher or researcher who is tackling the play and for the interested students who wish to carry their investigations of the play beyond the classroom lecture.

• Series IntroductionNotes on Contributors TimelineIntroduction 1 The Critical Backstory DAVID BEVINGTON 2 The Alchemist on the Stage: Performance,Collaboration and Deviation ELIZABETH SCHAFERand EMMA COX 3 The State of the Art MATTHEW STEGGLE 4 New Directions: Space, Plague and Satire inBen Jonson’s The Alchemist MATHEW MARTIN 5 New Directions: Staging Gender IAN MCADAM ANDJULIE SANDERS 6 New Directions: The Alchemist and the Lower BodilyStratum BRUCE BOEHRER 7 New Directions: Waiting for the End? Alchemy andApocalypse in The Alchemist MARK HOULAHAN 8 Pedagogical Strategies and Web ResourcesERIN JULIAN and HELEN OSTOVICH NotesSelected BibliographyIndex