Literary works influenced by alchemy

  • Mercury Vindicated - a masque by Ben Jonson
  • Ben Jonson - The Alchemist (a satirical play written in 1610)
  • Chaucer - The Canon Yeoman's tale
  • Poems of John Donne with alchemical references
  • Reginald Scot on alchemy
  • William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  • 'Gold' an alchemical adventure - a play by Andrew Dallmeyer
  • Goethe's Faust