Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy by Ben Jonson

"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.)

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Author Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
Title Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Fair_(play)
Credits Produced by Paul Haxo with special thanks to the Internet
Archive, the University of California, and Christopher
Webber.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 91.1 (5th grade). Very easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Comedy plays
Subject English drama -- 17th century
Category Text
EBook-No. 49461
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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