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@article{147561,
        author = {MRS.M.KOKILA and T.AKHILA},
        title = {THE  ALCHEMIST   AS  A  SATIRE  AND COMEDY},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {5},
        number = {9},
        pages = {101-103},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=147561},
        abstract = {The   Age of  Jonson, the age  in which the  great dramatist  matured  and  created , covers  roughly  the last  quarter of the  16th century and the first 37 years  of the 17 th century. Thus, in a way, Jonson is the connecting link between the glorious  age of Queen Elizabeth  and the  Puritan  age  which  is followed .It was  an age of  disillusionment ,of  increasing  gloom and  Pessimism, and this  melancholy  and  gloom of  the  age  colours  the literature of  the Period.”Drama reflects life’’,and  in  order  to  appreciate  the spirit  of  Ben  Jonson’s plays  it is  essential  to form an idea of his  age .He  is  a classic  Scholar, though  he went  a  university, Jonson   was  well educated. By self- study he had acquired wide and  deep Knowledge of classics. All stores of  ancient  literature  were  open  to him;  and  he  was  familiar  not  only  with the  perfect  productions  of the  Greek  dramatists,but  even  with  the  fragments that  lay  scattered   among  the works of the  grammarians,The  Case  is Altered and  Every  Man  in His  Humour   offer  ample  evidence  that  Jonson  came  to  playwriting  fresh  from the  study  of  Plautus  and  Terence. },
        keywords = {Gloom, Humour, Playwright,Knowledge,Melancholy,Disillusionment},
        month = {},
        }