{"id":194,"date":"2009-09-28T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:21:07","slug":"ben-jonson-bartholomew-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2009\/09\/28\/ben-jonson-bartholomew-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Jonson. Bartholomew Fair."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1091\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Ben_Jonson_by_George_Vertue_1730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1091\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1091\" title=\"Ben_Jonson_by_George_Vertue_1730\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Ben_Jonson_by_George_Vertue_1730-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Jonson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Jonson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having seen Antoni Cimolino\u2019s production of Ben Jonson\u2019s <em>Bartholomew Fair<\/em> a few weeks ago, I find myself continuing to think about it. A rare play rarely played, Jonson\u2019s comedy, like Shakespeare\u2019s, offers its audience a serious vision of life in all its plenitude, letting the hot air out of everyone. Cimolino gives the play a marvelous interpretation, bringing it to life for our own time. After seeing the play, it was a shock to learn that the <a href=\"https:\/\/stratfordfestival.ca\/OnStage\/productions.aspx?id=615&amp;prodid=26640\">Stratford Festival production<\/a> was the first performance in North America. <em>Bartholomew Fair<\/em> deserves to be much better known&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now available in<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays<\/em><br \/>\nForthcoming, September, 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html\">https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bartholomew Fair, a rare play rarely played, Ben Jonson\u2019s comedy, like Shakespeare\u2019s, offers its audience a serious vision of life in all its plenitude, letting the hot air out of everyone.  <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2009\/09\/28\/ben-jonson-bartholomew-fair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[159,158,160,186,162,164,163,161],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-antoni-cimolino","tag-bartholomew-fair","tag-ben-jonson","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-juan-chioran","tag-judge-adam-overdo","tag-lucy-peacock","tag-shakespeare-stratford-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}