Bartholmew Fair by Ben Jonson
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.-
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Alexander Leggatt is Professor of English at University College, University of Toronto. He studied at the University of Toronto and at the Shakespeare Institute, and has taught at the University of Toronto since 1965. G. R. Hibbard was Emeritus Professor of English, University of Waterloo, Ontario.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780713674279 |
| ISBN 10 | 071367427X |
| Title | Bartholmew Fair |
| Author | Ben Jonson |
| Series | New Mermaids |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2007-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |