Bartholomew Fair
Author: first_name: Ben
last_name: Jonson
Language: English
Year: 1910

"[A] picture of the old [Bartholomew] Fair, into which all the curious incidents that might happen among the hearty, pleasure-loving Londoners on Bartholomew Day are crowded.... Aside from Act 1, which is introductory, the scene is laid entirely in the outer portion of the Fair, where were the eating-booths, the puppet-shows, and the 'monsters'. "
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"Jonson more than any other Elizabethan dramatist identified himself with London, and by nature was peculiarly fitted to enter into the lif