The Alchemist (play)

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The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The play cleverly fulfills the classical unities and vividly depicts human folly, making it one of the handful of Renaissance plays that sees continued life on the modern stage.