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- Title
JONSON'S BARTHOLOMEWFAIR AND BANCROFT'S DANGEROUS POSITIONS.
- Authors
Creaser, John
- Abstract
In the later scenes of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, the speeches of the Puritan hypocrite Zeal-of-the-land Busy repeatedly echo seditious utterances cited by Richard Bancroft in his virulently anti-Presbyterian tract, Dangerous Positions and Proceedings (1593). The effect of these echoes within the play is diverse: Puritan extremism is made ludicrous by association with such a preposterous figure, yet the disparity between Busy's petty occasions and the original national emergency of the utterances has the paradoxical effect of implying that such extremism remains a potent threat to Church and state.
- Subjects
BARTHOLOMEW Fair (Play : Jonson); JONSON, Ben, ca. 1573-1637; BANCROFT, Richard; DANGEROUS Positions (Book); RADICALISM in literature; CHURCH &; state
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 2006, Vol 57, Issue 229, p176
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/res/hgl037