, ,

Bartholmew Fair

Paperback EN 2007 2e druk 9780713674279
€ 23,71
Levertijd ongeveer 16 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden

Samenvatting

Early modern London - too foggy and Protestant to have a carnival -
offered its inhabitants commercial events during which to indulge their
need for bodily delights and festival exuberance. The fair of St
Bartholmew, held anually in Smithfield on 24 August, served Jonson as
an opportunity to dissect a wide cross-section of Londoners and their
various reasons for spending a day out among the booths, stalls, smells
and noises of the fair. Unusually magnanimous for a Jonsonian city
comedy, the main thrust of the satire is not against fools, madmen,
fortune-hunters, cuckolds or prostitutes, but against hypocrisy and
bigotry. This edition shows that the play can be read as a
comprehensive refutation of puritanism and the London magistracy, both
of whom were attacking the theatre (and the festive culture of which it
was still part) as idolatrous, seditious and disorderly.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780713674279
Taal:EN
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:224
Uitgever:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Druk:2

Lezersrecensies

Wees de eerste die een lezersrecensie schrijft!

Managementboek Top 100

€ 23,71
Levertijd ongeveer 16 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden

Rubrieken

    Personen

      Trefwoorden

        Artikelen

          Bartholmew Fair