Bartholomew Fair
By Ben Jonson
Manchester University Press · Print & ebook · November 30, 2000
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A playful critical companion to Jonson’s stagecraft and its classroom afterlife.
- Genres
- British & Irish Plays, Renaissance Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism
- Published
- Manchester University Press, November 30, 2000
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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 in examining the play's concern with forced marriage, pregnancy, sexual commerce and widowhood.
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Glosses and notes are provided for students and theatre-goers clarifying the language and dialects Jonson uses to individualise the characters in his prose masterpiece and helpfully explicating layers of meaning and topical references.
Stagewise Reading
A playful critical companion to Jonson’s stagecraft and its classroom afterlife.
Come here for
- Classroom-ready critical lens
- Performance and staging angles
Expect
- Theater-history framing
- Identity-and-worldview questions
Where it sits
| British & Irish Plays | 78% |
|---|---|
| Drama Criticism | 25% |
| Renaissance Literary Criticism | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Plays
- 16th-Century Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Suzanne Gossett
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- November 30, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Plays