authoritative texts of Volpone, Epicoene, The alchemist, The masque of blackness, Mercury vindicated from the alchemists at court, Pleasure reconciled to virtue : contexts, backgrounds and sources, criticism
Contains two comedies by Ben Jonson, "Volpone" and "The Alchemist" that portray the greed, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society.
