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Of all of Jonson's plays, Bartholomew Fair with its focus on the conflict between a carnivalesque enjoyment of the flesh and society's desire for order and control, speaks most directly to the modern audience. This edition is the first to use the findings of feminist scholarship... Read Full Overview

Of all of Jonson's plays, Bartholomew Fair with its focus on the conflict between a carnivalesque enjoyment of the flesh and society's desire for order and control, speaks most directly to the modern audience. This edition is the first to use the findings of feminist scholarship... Read Full Overview

"Bartholomew Fair" is the climactic play of Ben Jonson's great comic period. Using the fair as a symbolic representation of religious, social, and political conflicts in Jacobean England, Jonson satirizes Puritans, fortune hunters, country bumpkins, and inept representatives... Read Full Overview

Jonson's most ambitious and flamboyant comedy, often considered the culmination of his career.

Complete edition of play published in 1616. A comedy about London's lower classes. Includes Introduction, critical and explanatory notes. From the Yale Ben Jonson Edition.

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... Read Full Overview

"Bartholomew Fair" is the climactic play of Ben Jonson's great comic period. Using the fair as a symbolic representation of religious, social, and political conflicts in Jacobean England, Jonson satirizes Puritans, fortune hunters, country bumpkins, and inept representatives... Read Full Overview

""Bartholomew Fair"" is a play written by Ben Jonson in the early 17th century. The play is set in the bustling Bartholomew Fair, a popular annual event held in London during the 17th century. The fair is a place where people from all walks of life come together to indulge in... Read Full Overview

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson

Reproduction of the original: Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson

Bartholomew Fair is a play written by Ben Jonson in 1614. The play is set in the famous Bartholomew Fair, which was a popular event in London during the 17th century. The fair was known for its rowdy and chaotic atmosphere, where people from all walks of life would come to enjoy... Read Full Overview

"Bartholomew Fair" is the climactic play of Ben Jonson's great comic period. Using the fair as a symbolic representation of religious, social, and political conflicts in Jacobean England, Jonson satirizes Puritans, fortune hunters, country bumpkins, and inept representatives... Read Full Overview

Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy is a comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson, the last written of his four great comedies. It was first staged on 31 October 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men. Written four years after The Alchemist, five after Epicoene, or the Silent... Read Full Overview