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The Alchemist play

  Ben Johnson as a writer: Born on 11, 1572 in Westminster and left this temporal world 6, 1637 in London. He gave currency to the comedy of manners. He is counted as one of the greatest dramatists of the English literature. Ben Johnson’s Every Man in His Humor  is most important work, Shakespeare has acted into it. This comedy brought fame and money to him. He wrote every Man out of his humor too, unfortunately, it could not emulate former. Ben Johnson has endeavored to demonstrate contemporary life of his time. He has an in-depth insight of social and his presentation is marvelous too. In Alchemist, he sheds light upon the ingrained pitfalls of the renaissance society. Ben Johnson worked at the court and also called as first poet of the laureate albeit at his time there was no such term. He was able to make more money by submitting his work to court than public plays. Ben Johnson dramas embodies absurdity . It may include some obscene things. In the alchemist, for example...