Bartholmew Fair (New Mermaids) - Softcover

Jonson, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071367427X ISBN 13: 9780713674279

Verlag: Methuen Drama, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Jonson Ben

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Reseña del editor:

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.

Biografía del autor:

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.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Methuen Drama
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 071367427X
• ISBN 13: 9780713674279
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Herausgeber: Leggatt Alexander, Hibbard G.R.