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Anything can happen (and usually does) at Bartholomew Fair, where fraudsters and pickpockets thrive and Ursula the pig-woman trades in more than one kind of flesh. Neither respectability nor Puritan zeal are proof against its snares – and no one who partakes in this licentious revel will ever be quite the same again.
Jonson’s no-holds-barred satire of big-city life depicts the London in which he and Shakespeare lived seething with scurrilous and hilarious energy.
Anything can happen (and usually does) at Bartholomew Fair, where fraudsters and pickpockets thrive and Ursula the pig-woman trades in more than one kind of flesh. Neither respectability nor Puritan zeal are proof against its snares – and no one who partakes in this licentious revel will ever be quite the same again.
Jonson’s no-holds-barred satire of big-city life depicts the London in which he and Shakespeare lived seething with scurrilous and hilarious energy.
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