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Bartholomew Fair

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Bartholomew Fair

Comedy by Ben Jonson 1614. In a satirical panorama of one of Jacobean London's great fairs, the representatives of morality, Justice Overdo and Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, are pitted against the tricksters, traders, and puppeteers of the Fair.


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Leaping across it, he befriends a group of "nature's oddities"--the freaks of Bartholomew Fair, especially Astra, the changeling child, a "living skeleton" only eighteen inches high.
Ben Jonson's preface to Bartholomew Fair makes it clear that code, and snooping state code-breakers, were rife in the theater of his day.
The result of this considerable undertaking is a veritable Bartholomew Fair of names, dates and facts, eminently useful for researching New York City in its particulars, but falling short in Diderot's terms of making the subject broadly comprehensible.
 
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