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Item Details
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BARTHOLMEW FAIR
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| By: |
Ben Jonson, Alexander Leggatt (Editor), G. R. Hibbard (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408144670 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408144671 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
20 February, 2014 |
| Edition: |
2nd edition epub |
| Series: |
New Mermaids |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
This edition has been updated with a new Introduction which examinesBartholmew Fair as a reading text, as a text for performance and as aplay that questions theatre itself. |
| Synopsis: |
Early modern London - too foggy and Protestant to have a carnival -offered its inhabitants commercial events during which to indulge theirneed for bodily delights and festival exuberance. The fair of StBartholmew, held anually in Smithfield on 24 August, served Jonson asan opportunity to dissect a wide cross-section of Londoners and theirvarious reasons for spending a day out among the booths, stalls, smellsand noises of the fair. Unusually magnanimous for a Jonsonian citycomedy, the main thrust of the satire is not against fools, madmen,fortune-hunters, cuckolds or prostitutes, but against hypocrisy andbigotry. This edition shows that the play can be read as acomprehensive refutation of puritanism and the London magistracy, bothof whom were attacking the theatre (and the festive culture of which itwas still part) as idolatrous, seditious and disorderly. |
| Illustrations: |
Approx. 5 b&w photos |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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