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In The Alchemist , Jonson satirizes, or mocks, Anabaptists, Spaniards, and knights arrogant, all who would all have been familiar to the contemporary audience.
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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...
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The play is set in contemporary London of the time so around 1610.
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