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Article: Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair.'
- Article from:
- The Explicator
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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Many critics of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair have commented on the anti-Semitic remarks of Zeal-of-the-Land Busy(1) at the end of act 1, but the concomitant allusive remarks made by Proctor Littlewit ("I could never away with that stiff-necked generation" [1.6.99-100]) have generally been overlooked, even in the commentaries of editions of the play (including Herford and Simpson's). Littlewit's utterance of "stiff-necked people" alludes to the Old Testament,(2) which includes this singular phrase eight times,(3) especially in the hook of Exodus (in which the phrase occurs four times). In the parallel contexts of scene and allusion, the allusion elevates the incidental ...
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... ... Volpone, Michaelmas Term, Epicoene, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Alchemist, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, and Bartholomew Fair. A more intuitive structure might have served Martin's needs better, for it could allow for less reiteration of recent ...
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