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product_id: 18469812
title: "The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair (Oxford World's Classics)"
brand: "ben jonson"
price: "$39"
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reviews_count: 9
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# The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair (Oxford World's Classics)

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- **What is this?** The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair (Oxford World's Classics) by ben jonson
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## Customer Reviews

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    John Dryden famously said that he admired Jonson while he loved Shakespeare. But
  

*by A***K on Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2017*

In what can only be seen as a back-handed compliment, John Dryden famously said that he admired Jonson while he loved Shakespeare. But, man, is there a lot to admire. Taking the challenge of Aristotle's unities to its fullest extent, Jonson's ALCHEMIST is a masterpiece of comic invention and timing. It starts in the middle of an argument and watches that argument get resolved inadequately but weirdly perfectly. VOLPONE is a comedy of deceit and control, driven by desire. This is a good collection, fairly inexpensive, with a good overview, though as with all Oxford and Penguin editions I wish they would change their usage of endnotes, and these plays exigently show why: you're constantly having to turn to the back in order to see what things means, and students are seeing these as plays of record rather than records of performance. Critical and Scholarly editions put the footnotes where they're easily available; I wish more accessible editions like this would follow suit.

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    Five Stars
  

*by N***O on Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2015*

The book arrived ok and it was not dammaged at all

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    Kindle version appears useless
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2010*

The paper versions of Oxford World Classics are excellent. They have excellent notes which appear at the end of the book that are keyed to line numbers in the text. The line numbers have been stripped from the Kindle version! This doesn't really matter because the Kindle has no significant hyperlinking. From what I can tell the Kindle screen is excellent but the software is primitive and only good for reading something without any references or footnotes. Amazon has a way to go before I'll buy a Kindle. Does anyone at Oxford know what Amazon has done to their publication? Run away Oxford! Kindle is winning you no friends!

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