Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair.'

From: The Explicator | Date: September 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The remarks of Zeal-of-the-Land Busy at the end of Act I in Ben Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair' have been criticized as anti-Semitic. Contextualizing the play, however, would clarify Jonson's subtle social commentary. At the time the play was written, the fair no longer had religious function. Thus, Busy and his companion, Littlewit, are shown to be the religious hypocrites that they are as they leave for the fair. They enact the allusion they have referred to, the Exodus, in a perverse manner.

Many critics of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair have commented on the anti-Semitic remarks of ...

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