For the play by Ben Jonson, see Bartholomew Fair (play).
Bartholomew Fair as illustrated in 1808
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 Bartholomew in 1133. It took place each year on 24 August within the precincts of the Priory at West Smithfield, London until 1855 when it was banned due to causing public disturbances.
The BartholomewFair 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...
Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears...
numerous productions of William Shakespeare including King Lear (1968), BartholomewFair (1969), Measure for Measure (1970), The Tempest (1970), Hamlet (1975)...
Cloth Fair is a street in the City of London where, in medieval times, merchants gathered to buy and sell fabric during the BartholomewFair. Today, it...
Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and BartholomewFair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as...
Another literary reference is Ben Jonson's BartholomewFair, in which Justice Adam Overdo patrols the fair in disguise, saying (Act 2, Scene 1): Many...
Ontario originating the role 2009 Three Sisters Rhode Stratford Festival BartholomewFair Filcher Stratford Festival Morris Panych's Tresspassers Lowell Stratford...
Theatre School. Theatre work includes: Henry V, After the Fall and BartholomewFair at the Royal National Theatre, Edmond at the Royal Court, and numerous...
in 1616 and first published in 1631. The Devil Is an Ass followed BartholomewFair (1614), one of the author's greatest works, and marks the start of...
Jonson's BartholomewFair is given at Philip Henslowe's newly opened Hope Theatre in London. November 1 – The Lady Elizabeth's Men perform BartholomewFair at...
Bel-Imperia and Sandy Grierson as Lorenzo. In the "Induction" to his play BartholomewFair (1614), Ben Jonson alludes to The Spanish Tragedy as being "five and...
Cornwall William Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Theatre, London 1969 BartholomewFair Lantern Leatherhead Ben Jonson Aldwych Theatre, London 1970–1971 Two...
English day of fairs/festivals Appleby Horse Fair Baldock Charter Fair Bampton Fair, Devon Barnet Fair also see Barnet Market BartholomewFair, London Beaconsfield...
the periodic fair of the Middle Ages - one of the earliest was the BartholomewFair in England from 1133. By the 18th and 19th centuries, they had evolved...
Tyler and Jack Straw, or, The Mob Reformers (1730) first performed at BartholomewFair in 1730. Wat Tyler is represented in Robert Southey's Wat Tyler, A...
or within large tents at England's yearly agricultural events at BartholomewFair and Mayfair. In the latter half of the 18th century, marionette companies...
seventeenth-century plays such as Epicœne, or The Silent Woman (1609), BartholomewFair (1614), and A New Way to Pay Old Debts (c. 1625). The appropriation...
project was to complete writing music for the first production of BartholomewFair: A Comedy at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2009. During that...
University Experimental Theatre Club he directed an open-air production of BartholomewFair for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford, in 1959 (when he also...
medical theory. Jonson's comedies include Volpone (1605 or 1606) and BartholomewFair (1614). Others who followed Jonson's style include Beaumont and Fletcher...
being the site of BartholomewFair entertainments, and the man in question was Elkanah Settle, who had written for BartholomewFair after the Glorious...
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