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Article: 'Bartholomew Fair' and Jonsonian tolerance.
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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By the time Bartholomew Fair was staged in 1614, Ben Jonson understood from more first-hand experience than most of his fellow playwrights the dangers of stage censorship. The bitter memories of his entanglement with the authorities over The Isle of Dogs (1597), Poetaster (1601), Sejanus (1603), and Eastward Ho (1605) would have taught him the importance of subtlety and discretion when touching on matters of church and state. For although the theater was prohibited by statute from dealing directly with issues that involve religion or government, these were subjects often of the greatest interest to an audience. As a consequence, Jonson and his colleagues developed ...
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Article: Boswell's Jonson is too fool-blown Bartholomew Fair ...
Evening Standard - London;
February 25, 1999 ;
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...WITH a thoroughly 1990s flourish, Laurence Boswell attempts to defy the difficulties of making Ben Jonson and his complex language live for us on stage today. By transporting Jonson's early 17th century London fair to a rave at our own Notting Hill Carnival, with calypso, reggae and more than a
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