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Bartholomew 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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