SUBTLE, the Alchemist.
FACE, the Housekeeper.
DOL COMMON, their Colleague.
DAPPER, a Lawyer's Clerk.
DRUGGER, a Tobacco Man.
LOVEWIT, Master of the House.
SIR EPICURE MAMMON, a Knight.
PERTINAX SURLY, a Gamester.
TRIBULATION WHOLESOME, a Pastor of Amsterdam.
ANANIAS, a Deacon there.
KASTRIL, the angry Boy.
DAME PLIANT, his Sister, a Widow.
Neighbours.
Officers, Attendants, etc.
The Question and Answer section for The Alchemist (Jonson) is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In The Alchemist, Jonson satirizes, or mocks, Anabaptists, Spaniards, and knights arrogant, all who would all have been familiar to the contemporary audience.
Jonson's play was a modern-dress play in its day (1610), and it is hugely steeped in the culture of its time. The locations it names—the Temple Church, Deaf John's and the Pigeons Tavern, to name but three—were all close to the Blackfriars theater...
The play is set in contemporary London of the time so around 1610.
