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Bartholomew Fair - 9780713674279
Un libro in lingua di Ben Jonson Hibbard G. R. (EDT) Leggatt Alexander (INT) edito da Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2007
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The fair of St. Bartholmew, an annual summer carnival, offered Londoners an event to indulge their need for bodily delights and festival exuberance. The setting serves as Jonson's 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Bartholomew Fair
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Ben Jonson Hibbard G. R. (EDT) Leggatt Alexander (INT)
- Editore: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Settembre '07
- Genere: Lingua Inglese
- ISBN-10: 071367427X
- EAN-13: 9780713674279