Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy
| Language | en |
|---|---|
| First published | 2015-07-16 |
| Rights | Public domain in the USA. |
| Gutenberg ID | #49461 |
Description
"Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy" by Ben Jonson is a Jacobean comedy first staged in 1614. Set at London's famous summer fair, the play follows an eclectic mix of characters—from a disguised justice to a hypocritical Puritan, from pickpockets to country simpletons—as they converge on Smithfield's chaotic marketplace. Through schemes, robberies, mistaken identities, and a climactic puppet show, Jonson creates a vivid panorama of early seventeenth-century London life, where social positions crumble and human folly takes center stage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)