Status Updates From The Alchemist. a Comedy

A hailstorm of contemporary references, commonplaces distorted, colloquialisms inverted, archaisms, dialects punned upon, clever ripostes, forgotten euphemisms that only a footnote can make heads or tails of, et cetetra. Language treated as if were flammable putty. Some of the most difficult, opaque writing I've ever read. More challenging than Shakespeare, even the late plays.

all of these characters are idiots

I have a grasp of what is happening plot-wise, but I have no clue what any of what they are saying means 😭

Wait guys he kind of ate with this one (if Ben Jonson has no fans I am dead. The original diva.)

gotta love some con artists. kind of funny once you translate every single line and insult into what the modern equivalent would be

Just gotta trust shoshana on this one 💔