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Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists
''Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court'' is a Jacobean era masque, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones. It was performed at Whitehall Palace on Twelfth Night, 6 January 1615. King James I liked it so much that he ordered a repeat performance the following Sunday, 8 January.
The masque was initially published in the first folio collection of Jonson's works in 1616, and was included in the collected works from that point on.
==The show==
The masque portrays the god Mercury driving out a crew of alchemists that have abused his nature. The anti-masque, set in an alchemical laboratory, featured twelve alchemist figures, and twelve "imperfect creatures" wearing helmets shaped like alembics. After their dances, they were dispersed by the intervention of the god, and the scene changed to a "glorious bower," in which Mercury, along with Prometheus and a personification of Nature, ushered in the dance of the masquing courtiers, who were twelve "Sons of Nature."
For source material for this work, "Jonson drew on Sendivogius's satirical ''Dialogus Mercurii, Alchymistae et Naturae....''"〔M. K. Schuchard, ''Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture,'' Amsterdam, Brill Academic Publishers, 2002; p. 303.〕 Jonson treats alchemists as charlatans in his text, as he does in his play ''The Alchemist''. The words "at Court" in the full title of the work have provoked scholars to debate the actual meaning and significance of Jonson's text, since real alchemists were not particularly well represented at James's court. The work is clearly more symbolic than literal, though critics disagree on the specifics of its meaning.
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