Essays on The Alchemist

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  • Commentary on The Alchemist as a Comedy of Humours.

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    The comedy of humours pertains to a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on one or many eccentric characters each of whom has one overriding trait or humour that dominates their personality and obssesses their mind The comedy of humours was one of Jonsons major innovations The Alchemist is basically a comedy of humours even though it does not contain such a variety of humours as in Jonsons earlier play Every man in His Humour In The Alchemist Jonson concentrates mainly on greed which is the hu

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