Bartholomew Fair, A Comedy

Bartholomew Fair, A Comedy

By Ben Jonson
Michael Caine
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Length4h 35m

About this audiobook

Jonson's play uses this fair as the setting for an unusually detailed and diverse panorama of early seventeenth-century London life. The one day of fair life represented in the play allows Jonson ample opportunity to not just conduct his plot, but also to depict the vivid life of the fair, from pickpockets and bullies to justices and slumming gallants. Jonson also uses the characters that he creates as a way to comment on the social, religious and political conflicts of London society in Jacobean England.

Audiobook details

GenreHumor, General Fiction
Length4 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 29, 2022
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
5ACT II
2PROLOGUE.
6ACT III
3THE INDUCTION.
7ACT IV
4ACT I
8ACT V

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