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Early modern London - too foggy and Protestant to have a carnival -
offered its inhabitants commercial events during which to indulge their
need for bodily delights and festival exuberance. The fair of St
Bartholmew, held anually in Smithfield on 24 August, served Jonson as
an 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.
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Alexander Leggatt is Professor of English at University College,
University of Toronto. He studied at the University of Toronto and at
the Shakespeare Institute, and has taught at the University of Toronto
since 1965. G. R. Hibbard was Emeritus Professor of English, University
of Waterloo, Ontario.
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- PublisherMethuen Drama
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 071367427X
- ISBN 13 9780713674279
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- Edition number2
- Number of pages224
- EditorHibbard G.R., Leggatt Alexander
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