* The Alchemist ( play ), a 17th century play by Ben Jonson

This play and Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist ( 1610 ) are typically cited as the first usage of the word in publication .< ref > See, for instance,

He made his main entrance in English-speaking culture late in the nineteenth century as " Owlglass ", but was first mentioned in English literature by Ben Jonson in his comedic play The Alchemist.

Ben Jonson was a frequent visitor, and dedicated his play The Alchemist to Mary and poetry collection The Forest to Sir Robert.

Hytner's directorial work for theatre includes The Country Wife, Edward II, Don Carlos, Ghetto, Miss Saigon, Orpheus Descending, a 2-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, Alan Bennett's The History Boys, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel ( 1992 ), Southwark Fair and The Alchemist, Measure for Measure ( 1987 ), The Tempest ( 1988 ) and King Lear ( 1990 ), The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar ( 1992 ), The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh ( 1997 ), The Winter's Tale ( 2001 ), Mother Clap's Molly House by Mark Ravenhill ( 2001 ), Henry V ( play ) ( 2003 ) and England People Very Nice ( 2009 ).

Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist bears many similarities to Chaucer's tale.

* Valory Gravois, Cherry Single, Alchemist / Light Publishing, 1997 ( Available to read free, online ), ISBN 0-9600650-5-9

Progress cards granting victory points are an exception, being played immediately ( without regards to whose turn it is ), while the Alchemist progress card, which allows a player to select the roll of the white and red dice, necessitates the card being played instead of rolling the numerical dice.

* In Peter F. Hamilton's novel The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), neutronium is created by the " aggressive " setting of a superweapon.

British author Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels: The Reality Dysfunction ( 1996 ), The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), and The Naked God ( 1999 ).

The story of the Night's Dawn Trilogy is separated over three books: The Reality Dysfunction ( 1996 ), The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), and The Naked God ( 1999 ); but is also supported by " A Second Chance at Eden ", a collection of short stories which provide insight into the history of Hamilton's universe.

# John " the Alchemist " ( 1405 – 1465 ), Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

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* Alchemist ( company ), a Japanese based company that develops video games

* The Alchemist ( novel ), the translated title of a 1988 allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho

* " The Alchemist " ( short story ), a short story by H. P. Lovecraft

* The Alchemist ( novelette ), a science fiction novelette by Charles L. Harness

* The Alchemist ( Witchcraft album ), the third album by Swedish doom metal band Witchcraft

* The Alchemist ( Avatar album ), the 1996 debut album of Romanian death metal band Avatar

* The Alchemist ( Home album ), the 1973 album released by Home, a British rock band

* The Alchemist ( Philip Pickett album ), a solo album released in 1998 by Philip Pickett

* The Alchemist ( film ), a 1986 horror film

* The Alchemist ( 2009 film ), a film scheduled for release in 2009

* The Alchemist ( painting ), a 17th century painting of an alchemical laboratory by David Teniers the Younger

* Alchemist ( video game ), a 1983 ZX Spectrum game

* The Minor Arcana consist of highly skilled magicians such as the Alchemist seeking the philosopher's stone and the potion of immortality, the Jewelsmith Artificer, which manufactures protective amulets and rings Powers ( similar the Elves of Eregion who were manipulated by Sauron in the work of Tolkien ), the Mechanician Artificer that makes the statues come alive, mechanisms and magical traps, the Weaponsmith Artificer that manufactures weapons and armor magic ( a class in which Dwarves particularly excel ), the Astrologer who reads the future in the stars and Diviner which reads the future in Tarot cards.

Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist also starts with a story about Narcissus, found ( we are told ) by the alchemist in a book brought by someone in the caravan.

Before Garissa is destroyed by illegal antimatter bombs called planet busters, sent from Omuta, several Garissan ships are sent to attack Omuta with a superweapon called the Alchemist.

The search takes her to the Disk-system which is now inhabited by the survivors of the Garissan genocide, and finally ( with the aid of Calvert ) to an uninhabited system to find the Alchemist starship which was damaged at the beginning of the first novel.

* Belgian — Dell ' Acqua, Eva: Pierrot the Liar ( 1918 ); Renieu, Lionel: The Chimera, or Pierrot the Alchemist ( 1926 ; libretto by Albert Nouveau and Fortuné Paillot ).

" Michał Sędziwój | Alchemist Sędziwój " by Jan Matejko: alchemist, and pioneer chemist

* The Alchemist, a novel by Donna Boyd

* Fullmetal Alchemist, the English title of a series of Japanese manga and anime created by Hiromu Arakawa

* The Neutronium Alchemist, the second book in The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton

* Element Lad, a comic superhero sometimes known by the codename " Alchemist "

*" Alchemist ", a track sung by Russell Watson on the album Amore Musica

* " The Alchemist ", a song by Bruce Dickinson from the 1998 album, The Chemical Wedding

The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus | The Alchymist, In Search of the Philosophers ' Stone by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771.

A famous example is Winry Rockbell from Fullmetal Alchemist, who was variously spelled as Winry, Winly and Rinry by different groups due to the equivalence of the alveolar approximant and alveolar lateral approximant in Japanese.

At Malvern in 1932, he played Face in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.

While in Dublin, Garrick added two new roles to his repertoire: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist ( a role that garnered him much acclaim ) and Captain Plume in Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer.

But he was in great demand and also appeared in the plays of many of the great contemporary writers, such as Ben Jonson ( the title role in Volpone, and Subtle in The Alchemist ), John Marston ( The Malcontent ), John Webster ( The Duchess of Malfi ) and Beaumont and Fletcher ( The Maid's Tragedy ).

* Ben Jonson – The Alchemist ; The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers

Armin appears in the cast list for Ben Jonson's The Alchemist ; he may have played Drugger.

Ben Jonson, meanwhile, used a tighter blank verse with less enjambment in his great comedies Volpone and The Alchemist.

Another daughter, Mary Wroth, was ( like her father ) a poet ; Ben Jonson dedicated The Alchemist to her in 1612.

** The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson

* Dol Common, a character in The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Under this sponsorship, Handel conducted a series of more than 25 of his original operas, continuing until 1739 Handel was also a partner in the management with Heidegger from 1729 to 1734, and he contributed to incidental music for theatre, including for a revival of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, opening on 14 January 1710.

To a large degree, this language is incomprehensible to us today, though it is apparent that readers of Geoffery Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale or audiences of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist were able to construe it sufficiently to laugh at it.

* Captain Face, a character in The Alchemist ( 1610 ) by Ben Jonson

He is mentioned in the surviving cast lists of the company's productions of Ben Jonson's Sejanus ( 1603 ), Volpone ( 1605 ), The Alchemist ( 1610 ), and Catiline ( 1611 ), John Fletcher's Bonduca and Valentinian ( both ca.

It ’ s a notable theme in Ben Jonson ’ s The Alchemist where the following dialogue can be found, commenting on fraudulent applications of projection:

Ben Jonson satirised him in Volpone ( 1605 ), and especially in The Alchemist ( 1610 ).

For Peter Hall, she designed the modernized production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist in 1962, and Tyrone Guthrie's beast-fable production of Jonson's Volpone in 1964.