Bartholomew Fair Author:Ben Jonson; Eugene M. Waith (Editor) Not as well known today as Volpone and The Alchemist, this comedy of London's lower classes was a great favorite of Ben Jonson's contemporaries. The richness of its comic invention and the complexity of its plot and satirical view have returned it to its former high repute, and Professor Waith's skillful and illuminating critical introduction vi... more »vidly demonstrates its artistic excellence.
The high standards for textual accuracy and critical apparatus set for Volpone, the first volume of the Yale edition of Ben Jonson, are maintained here, and the format is identical. In addition, the editor has supplied an appendix on the original staging of the play that assists the reader greatly and is in itself a valuable contribution to studies of Elizabethan and Jacobean stagecraft.« less