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    The Bartholomew Fair was one of London's pre-eminent summer charter fairs. A charter for the fair was granted by King Henry I to fund the Priory of St...
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    Bartholomew Fair is a Jacobean comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson. It was first staged on 31 October 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men...
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    Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears...
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    numerous productions of William Shakespeare including King Lear (1968), Bartholomew Fair (1969), Measure for Measure (1970), The Tempest (1970), Hamlet (1975)...
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    Cloth Fair is a street in the City of London where, in medieval times, merchants gathered to buy and sell fabric during the Bartholomew Fair. Today, it...
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  • the famous Leicester Boy Witch Trial. The Devil Is an Ass followed Bartholomew Fair (1614), one of the author's greatest works, and marks the start of...
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    Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as...
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    Michael Bogdanov. He also performed in the Young Vic production of Bartholomew Fair in 1978. It was also directed by Michael Bogdanov. He was a member...
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    of Mode, Troilus and Cressida, Enemies, The Revenger's Tragedy, and Bartholomew Fair. Keays-Byrne made his first television appearance in 1967 on the British...
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    market. From the 12th century to the 19th century the area hosted Bartholomew Fair. Smithfield's principal street is called West Smithfield, and the area...
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    Another literary reference is Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, in which Justice Adam Overdo patrols the fair in disguise, saying (Act 2, Scene 1): Many...
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    who exhibited her as an attraction throughout England. In the St. Bartholomew's Fair of 1808, she came to the attention of George Douglas, the Earl of...
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  • Jonson's Bartholomew Fair is given at Philip Henslowe's newly opened Hope Theatre in London. November 1 – The Lady Elizabeth's Men perform Bartholomew Fair at...
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    Ontario Originating the role 2009 Three Sisters Rhode Stratford Festival Bartholomew Fair Filcher Stratford Festival Morris Panych's Trespassers Lowell Stratford...
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    Bel-Imperia and Sandy Grierson as Lorenzo. In the "Induction" to his play Bartholomew Fair (1614), Ben Jonson alludes to The Spanish Tragedy as being "five and...
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    Cornwall William Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Theatre, London 1969 Bartholomew Fair Lantern Leatherhead Ben Jonson Aldwych Theatre, London 1970–1971 Two...
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  • English day of fairs/festivals Appleby Horse Fair Baldock Charter Fair Bampton Fair, Devon Barnet Fair also see Barnet Market Bartholomew Fair, London Beaconsfield...
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    Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1968–1969 Win-the-Fight Littlewit, Bartholomew Fair, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1969 Lady Anne, Richard...
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    appearing closer to blows than to embraces. In Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jonson lampoons the poem in the fair's puppet show; his Hellespont is the River Thames...
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  • All's Well That Ends Well (2008) by William Shakespeare — Parolles Bartholomew Fair (2009) by Ben Jonson — Zeal-of-the-land Busy The Three Sisters (2009)...
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    Tyler and Jack Straw, or, The Mob Reformers (1730) first performed at Bartholomew Fair in 1730. Wat Tyler is represented in Robert Southey's Wat Tyler, A...
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  • Theatre School. Theatre work includes: Henry V, After the Fall and Bartholomew Fair at the Royal National Theatre, Edmond at the Royal Court, and numerous...
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    Straw Hat Fadinard Theatre Royal, Stratford East Bloody Mary 1976 Bartholomew Fair Ezechiel Edgworth / Puppet operator Nottingham Playhouse 1977-8 White...
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  • 1985) Chorus in Medea (Lyric Hammersmith, May 1986) Dame Overdo in Bartholomew Fair (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, June 1987) Titania in A Midsummer...
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    George Lloyd in 1861, may have been the same one shown at Bartholomew Fair in 1828.) At an 1843 fair in Hyde Park, "Madam Steevens, the Wonderful Pig-faced...
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    or distributed privately by Jonson is unclear. The three plays are: Bartholomew Fair The Devil Is an Ass The Staple of News Allot died in 1635; in the 1637–39...
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    or within large tents at England's yearly agricultural events at Bartholomew Fair and Mayfair. In the latter half of the 18th century, marionette companies...
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    Stratford performance in the Memorial Theatre's open-air production of Bartholomew Fair. His first professional appearances were, at the age of 27, in the...
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  • 1969 when McDowell was a cast member of the Senelick-directed play, Bartholomew Fair. McDowell and Senelick remained together for thirty years until McDowell's...
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    seventeenth-century plays such as Epicœne, or The Silent Woman (1609), Bartholomew Fair (1614), and A New Way to Pay Old Debts (c. 1625). The appropriation...
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