The Alchemist The Alchemist,Ben Jonson

The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the firstliterary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose,satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his timeaffected the subsequent course of English letters: such was BenJonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest tous almost unparalleled, at least in his age.