The Alchemist
First performed in 1610, Ben Jonson’s the Alchemist is a farcical comedy with a sharply satirical tone depicting the still-relevant characteristics of chaotic, wheeler-dealing city life.
First performed in 1610, Ben Jonson’s the Alchemist is a farcical comedy with a sharply satirical tone depicting the still-relevant characteristics of chaotic, wheeler-dealing city life.
One of the greatest dramatists from the Ming Dynasty, Tang Xianzu wrote the Peony Pavilion in 1598 as an elegy to true love at a time of ritualistic, repressed behaviour.
Middleton’s raucous city comedy is a timely exploration of gender roles, based on the real-life Moll Cutpurse, a musical performer and notorious thief who dressed in men’s clothes.