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Item Details
Title:
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BARTHOLOMEW FAIR
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By: |
Ben Jonson, Alexander Leggatt, G. R. Hibbard |
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Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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£13.12 |
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£1.87 |
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ISBN 10: |
071367427X |
ISBN 13: |
9780713674279 |
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Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
Pub. date: |
16 April, 2007 |
Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
Series: |
New Mermaids |
Pages: |
224 |
Description: |
This edition has been updated with a new Introduction which examines Bartholmew Fair as a reading text, as a text for performance and as a play 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 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. |
Illustrations: |
Approx. 5 b&w photos |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
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Non-returnable |
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