Bartholmew Fair

By:

Ben Jonson

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Paperback / softback

Series:

New Mermaids

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Early modern London - too foggy and Protestant to have a carnival - offered its inhabitants commercial events during which to indulge their need for bodily delights and festival exuberance. The fair of St Bartholmew, held anually in Smithfield on 24 August, served Jonson as an opportunity to dissect a wide cross-section of Londoners and their various reasons for spending a day out among the booths, stalls, smells and noises of the fair. Unusually magnanimous for a Jonsonian city comedy, the main thrust of the satire is not against fools, madmen, fortune-hunters, cuckolds or prostitutes, but against hypocrisy and bigotry. This edition shows that the play can be read as a comprehensive refutation of puritanism and the London magistracy, both of whom were attacking the theatre (and the festive culture of which it was still part) as idolatrous, seditious and disorderly.

Author Biography:

Alexander Leggatt is Professor of English at University College,University of Toronto. He studied at the University of Toronto and atthe Shakespeare Institute, and has taught at the University of Torontosince 1965. G. R. Hibbard was Emeritus Professor of English, Universityof Waterloo, Ontario.

Release date NZ

April 20th, 2007

Author

Ben Jonson

Audiences

A / AS level
General (US: Trade)
Undergraduate

Contributors

Edited by Alexander Leggatt
Edited by G.R. Hibbard

Edition

2nd edition

Illustrations

Approx. 5 b&w photos

Pages

224

Series

New Mermaids

Dimensions

129x198x14

ISBN-13

9780713674279

Product ID

2345036

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