# Lovewit — The Alchemist character guide

> Lovewit in The Alchemist by Ben Jonson.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0018-act-v

## Snapshot

The genial, absent master of the house whose untimely return threatens to collapse the entire alchemical enterprise built inside his walls.

## Who they are

Lovewit has been away from London during the plague, trusting his servant Face to keep the house, and his unexpected homecoming in the final movement throws the con men's world into chaos. He is less outraged than amused by what he finds — cracked pots, smoked walls, and a widow already half-wooed — and his pragmatism about recovering what he can makes him a surprisingly flexible moral arbiter. His arrival forces every schemer in the play to suddenly reckon with the real owner of the ground they have been standing on.

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