num_pages: 239
description: 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 of the justice system, along with sharpsters and con men who inhabit the fair. 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.
language: English
title: Ben Jonson: Bartholomew Fair
titlecomplete: Ben Jonson: Bartholomew Fair (The Yale Ben Jonson.)
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, British Literature, Drama, 17th Century, Comedy, School, Read For School, Classics
ratings_count: 798
publisher: Yale Univ Pr