Feb 3– The Alchemist by Ben Jonson (1610)
Summary: This is mostly two dudes insulting each other. Eventually they go to do a heist/con together.
Commentary: This is also part of "Elizabethan Drama" with last night's and the page numbers are continuous between the two volumes. Fun!
I think plays are the hardest thing to read here. We can never get a full one (script takes up so much page space) and they're really intended to be viewed, not read. With poems/songs, you can at least read them out loud to yourself. Maybe I should look into finding videos of all the play sections in the readings.
Tonight's in particular feels like it "should" be better, but mostly just reads as a lot of gross/insult humor.
How many plays, books, etc. titled The Alchemist are there, anyway? Looks like around a dozen if you count variant spellings.
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