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Bartholomew Fair
Ben Jonson
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Lit. No, but you were in haste e’en now, master Numps.
Waspe. What an I were! so I am still, and yet I will stay too; meddle you with your match, your Win there, she has as little wit as her husband, it seems: I have others to talk to.
Lit. She’s my match indeed, and as little wit as I, good!
Waspe. We have been but a day and a half in town, gentlemen, ’tis true; and yesterday in the afternoon we walked London to shew the city to the gentlewoman he shall marry, mistress Grace; but afore I will endure such another half day with him, I’ll be drawn with a good gib-cat, through the great pond at home, as his uncle Hodge was. Why, we could not meet that heathen thing all the day, but staid him; he would name you all the signs over, as he went, aloud: and where h. . . Read More
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My edition of Ben Jonson's pandemonious construct called Bartholomew Fair is in the New Mermaids series published Ernest Benn Limited and is edited by Maurice Hussey. Jonson poses a special challenge to the modern reader. I forget who it was who pointed out, but very truly, that slang is more epheme
two stars for a couple banger female characters but ohhhhhhhhh my god i am so bored. why is this play so long.
Insanely good. So looooooong a play, but is brilliant every single page.
The Tempest is among my top 10 fav Shakespeare plays.
This play is three times better than the Tempest.
Hilarious, from one of Shakespeare's contemporaries & a damned fine playwright himself. The metaphor of cooking pigs as Hell and the puppets ("mechanicals") telling off the authorities is priceless. A fun, farcical romp.
This was the weirdest play I have ever read. Hoping that my seminar today will help to shed some light on what on earth this text was about because I spent most of my time reading it staring blankly at the pages. Between pig-women, puppet-shows and a terrible Irish accent, this play has me stumped.
Ben Jonson looks like he's one of those guys who can do everything, but does everything in such a strongly-flavored way that you're not sure how to characterize him. He's got beautiful lyric poems, long gentle place poems, and these bizarre possibly moralistic plays which so far as I know fit in no
pepys saw this twice and loved it with the puppet show, wherein the Anabaptist loses an argument with a puppet.
This text was required reading for my Studies in Renaissance Literature course at the University of Utah.
Jonnson once again proves himself a master of subversive comedy as we follow a band of middle class characters to the debauchery of the annual Bartholomew Fair. Cut-purses abound, judges are put
in his depiction of all ppl as obese, grease covered, or venal and reprehensible, jonson not only invented [post:]modernism but also presaged modern america 400 years before it happened. whoa.