Ebook: The alchemist: a critical reader

The critical backstory /David Bevington -- -- The alchemist on the stage: performance, collaboration and deviation /Elizabeth Schafer and Emma Cox -- -- The state of the art /Matthew Steggle -- -- New directions: space, plague and satire in Ben Jonson's The alchemist /Mathew Martin -- -- New directions: staging gender /Ian McAdam and Julie Sanders -- -- New directions: The alchemist and the lower bodily stratum /Bruce Boehrer -- -- New directions: waiting for the end? Alchemy and apocalypse in The alchemist /Mark Houlahan -- -- Pedagogical strategies and web resources /Erin Julian and Helen Ostovich.