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Bartholomew Fair: A ComedyBen Jonson

Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy

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Original author: Ben Jonson

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"Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy" by Ben Jonson is a Jacobean comedy first staged in 1614. Set at London's famous summer fair, the play follows an eclectic mix of characters—from a disguised justice to a hypocritical Puritan, from pickpockets to country simpletons—as they converge on Smithfield's chaotic marketplace. Through schemes, robberies, mistaken identities, and a climactic puppet show, Jonson creates a vivid panorama of early seventeenth-century London life, where social positions crumble and human folly takes center stage.

Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy, by Ben Jonson. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #49461.

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7 Chapters

  1. 1.Prologue: To the King's Majesty1,773 words
  2. 2.Act I: SCENE I.--A Room in LITTLEWIT'S House6,085 words
  3. 3.Act II: SCENE I--The Fair5,978 words
  4. 4.Act III: SCENE I.--The Fair7,646 words
  1. 5.Act IV: SCENE I.--The Fair7,706 words
  2. 6.Act V: SCENE I.--The Fair, as before7,403 words
  3. 7.Epilogue1,457 words