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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.
Julie Hearn: Sign of the Raven by Baker, Deirdre F. / The Horn Book Magazine
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.
Decoding Shakespeare by Commonweal
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.
The Encyclopedia of New York City by Wunsch, James L. / Journal of Social History
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