"Even if a person is drugging someone else simply 'for fun' with no intent of taking advantage of the drugged person, the drugger is still putting a drug in someone else's body without their consent—and this is coercive and controlling behavior," the study's lead author, Suzanne Swan, said.
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Surly reveals his true identity to Face and Subtle, and denounces them. In quick succession Kastril, Drugger and Ananias return, and are set on Surly, who retreats. Drugger is told to go and find a Spanish costume if he is to have a chance of claiming the widow. Dol brings news that the master of the house has returned.
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Drugger brings Kastril who, on being told that Subtle is a skilled match-maker, rushes to fetch his sister. Drugger is given to understand that the appropriate payment might secure his marriage to the widow. Dapper is blindfolded and subjected to 'fairy' humiliations; but on the reappearance of Mammon, he is gagged and hastily thrust into the privy. Mammon is introduced to Dol.
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The Anabaptists and Drugger are summarily dismissed. Kastril accepts his sister's marriage to Lovewit. Lovewit pays tribute to the ingenuity of his servant, and Face asks for the audience's forgiveness.
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Garrick (right) as Abel Drugger in Jonson's The Alchemist painted by Johann Zoffany. At the end of the London season, Garrick, along with Peg Woffington, travelled to Dublin for the summer season at the Theatre Royal, Smock Lane. 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 earned him much acclaim) and Captain Plume in Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer. Some of his success could be attributed to one of his earliest fans, John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, who wrote letters to many noblemen and gentlemen recommending Garrick's acting.
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"David Garrick as Abel Drugger in Jonson's The Alchemist" by Johann Zoffany. Alchemy has had a long-standing relationship with art, seen both in alchemical texts and in mainstream entertainment. Literary alchemy appears throughout the history of English literature from Shakespeare to modern Fantasy authors. Here, characters or plot structure follow an alchemical magnum opus.
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Drugger delivers the Spanish costume and is sent to find a parson. Face tells Subtle and Dol that he has confessed to Lovewit, and that officers are on the way; Subtle and Dol have to flee, empty handed. The victims come back again. Lovewit has married the widow and claimed Mammon's goods; Surly and Mammon depart disconsolately.
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Weston was the son of a cook. He made his first London appearance in about 1759, and from 1763 until his death, he was admitted to be the most amusing comedian on the English stage. Samuel Foote wrote for him the part of Jerry Sneak in The Mayor of Garratt. Abel Drugger in the Alchemist was one of his famous performances; and Garrick, who also played this part, praised him highly for it.
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Their second gull is Drugger, a tobacconist, who is keen to establish a profitable business. After this, a wealthy nobleman, Sir Epicure Mammon, arrives, expressing the desire to gain himself the philosopher's stone, which he believes will bring him huge material and spiritual wealth. He is accompanied by Surly, a sceptic and debunker of the whole idea of alchemy. He is promised the philosopher's stone and promised that it will turn all base metal into gold.
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88-90Shakespeare and the Poet's Life, Gary Schmidgall, p. 157 An alternative suggestion, though, is that Iago was originally acted by John Lowin, with Armin instead taking the smaller part of Othello's servant. In non-Shakespearean roles, he probably played Pasarello in John Marston's The Malcontent; indeed, Marston may have added the part for him when the play was produced by the King's Men. Armin appears in the cast list for Ben Jonson's The Alchemist; he may have played Drugger.
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Surly however, suspects Subtle of being a thief. Mammon accidentally sees Dol and is told that she is a Lord's sister who is suffering from madness. Subtle contrives to become angry with Ananias, an Anabaptist, and demands that he should return with a more senior member of his sect (Tribulation). Drugger returns and is given false and ludicrous advice about setting up his shop; he also brings news that a rich young widow (Dame Pliant) and her brother (Kastril) have arrived in London.
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David Garrick as Abel Drugger in Jonson's The Alchemist by Johann Zoffany (c. 1770) The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge considered it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The play's clever fulfilment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays (except the works of Shakespeare) with a continuing life on stage (except for a period of neglect during the Victorian era).
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Guinness returned to the Old Vic in 1946 and stayed until 1948, playing Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, the Fool in King Lear opposite Laurence Olivier in the title role, DeGuiche in Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Ralph Richardson in the title role, and finally starring in an Old Vic production as Shakespeare's Richard II. After leaving the Old Vic, he played Eric Birling in J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls at the New Theatre in October 1946. He played the Uninvited Guest in the Broadway production of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party (1950, revived at the Edinburgh Festival in 1968). He played Hamlet under his own direction at the New Theatre in the West End in 1951.McCarten, John.
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Bernard claims to have been the means of bringing Emery on the stage, and tells an amusing story concerning the future comedian. After playing a short engagement in Yorkshire with Tate Wilkinson, who predicted his success, he was engaged to replace T. Knight at Covent Garden, where he was first seen, 21 September 1798, as Frank Oatland in Morton's A Cure for the Heart Ache. Lovegold in Miser and Oldcastle in the Intriguing Chambermaid (both by Fielding), Abel Drugger in the Tobacconist (an alteration by Francis Gentleman of Jonson's The Alchemist) and many other parts followed. On 13 June 1800 he appeared for the first time at the Haymarket as Zekiel Homespun in The Heir at Law by Colman, a character in the line he subsequently made his own.
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He played also in low comedy, sang occasionally, and for benefits took on some serious characters, appearing on one occasion as Richard III.During his first year's engagement he was seen as Jack Meggott in the The Suspicious Husband, Osric in Hamlet, Lord Trinket in The Jealous Wife, Lord Plausible in The Plain Dealer, Slender in the Merry Wives of Windsor, Sir Harry Wildair in The Constant Couple (George Farquhar), Roderigo in Othello, Alexas in All for Love, Sparkish in The Country Wife, Sir Novelty Fashion in Love's Last Shift, and Marplot in The Busybody (Susanna Centlivre), with other characters. He was especially noted as Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Abel Drugger. Among characters of which Dodd was the first exponent were Sir Benjamin Backbite in The School for Scandal, Dangle in The Critic, Lord Foppington in A Trip to Scarborough, and Adam Winterton in The Iron Chest.
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The end result, in structural terms, is an onstage base of operations in Friars, to which can be brought a succession of unconsciously- comic characters from different social backgrounds, who hold different professions and different beliefs, but whose lowest common denominator – gullibility – grants them equal victim-status in the end. Dapper, the aspirant gambler, loses his stake; Sir Epicure Mammon loses his money and his dignity; Drugger, the would-be businessman, parts with his cash, but ends up no nearer to the success he craves; the Puritan duo, Tribulation and Ananias, never realise their scheme to counterfeit Dutch money. Jonson reserves his harshest satire for these Puritan characters—perhaps because the Puritans, in real life, wished to close down the theatres. (Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair is also anti-Puritan.) Tellingly, of all those gulled in the play, it is the Puritans alone whom Jonson denies a brief moment of his audience's pity; presumably, he reckons their life-denying self-righteousness renders them unworthy of it.
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On 9 September 1717 he acted Old Merriman in a droll called Twice Married and a Maid still, given at his booth taken with George Pack, at Southwark Fair.Among characters, not original, which were assigned him in the latter half of his career were Dr. Caius, Sir William Belfond in Thomas Shadwell's The Squire of Alsatia, Day in The Committee (Robert Howard), Nonsense in Richard Brome's Northern Lass, Hearty in Brome's A Jovial Crew, Crack in Sir Courtly Nice (John Crowne), Antonio in The Chances (Beaumont and Fletcher), Daniel in Oroonoko,’ Old Brag in Love for Money (Thomas D'Urfey), Antonio in Venice Preserved, Gentleman Usher in King Lear, Abel Drugger, Costar Pearmain, Snap in Love's Last Shift (Colley Cibber), Scrub, Old Bellair in Man of the Mode (George Etherege), Calianax in the Maid's Tragedy (Beaumont and Fletcher), Ruffian and Apothecary in Caius Marius (Otway), Thomas Appletree in The Recruiting Officer, and Jerry Blackacre in The Plain Dealer (William Wycherley). As Lacy in The Relapse (Vanburgh) he succeeded Thomas Doggett, and eclipsed him in the part. He made a success as Geta in The Prophetess (Beaumont and Fletcher), and Crack in Sir Courtly Nice.
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