Bartholomew Fair is a play in five acts by Ben Jonson. It was first staged in 1614 at the Globe Theatre. It was the last of his three major plays. Benjamin Jonson (June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. ... Events April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. ... This article is about the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare, both the original and its modern reconstruction. ...

Littlewit, afficiando of word-play, is married to Win (short for Win-the Fight, a puritan name), whose velvet custard-cap delights her husband. Winwife is wooing Win's mother. Littlewit announces that this mother, Dame Purecraft, plans to marry a puritan madman and is under the influence of 'Rabbi' Busy. Quarlous arrives warns Winwife against marrying a crone. The Puritans were members of a group of radical Protestants which developed in England after the Reformation. ...

The enormously stupid Jethro-like Bartholomew Cokes wants to see the fair. Littlewit talks Win into 'longing' to see the fair, because he, with his rude, vulgar pen, has authored a puppet-show to be performed that day. Dame Purecraft and Busy are talked into going to the fair. A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). ...

Busy starts preaching and ranting and is thrown down a well, allowing Littlewit and Win to see the Fair without his 'busy' company, but Win needs to urinate so they go back to the pig-woman (and big woman) Ursula's.

Cokes, followed by crowds of tender juveniles, sees the advertisement for the puppet-show, and makes his way inside with Littlewit. Leatherhead, now called 'Lantern', displays his gaudy puppets to Cokes, who doltishly wants to buy them as 'fairings'.

Winwife and the graceless Grace arrive at the puppet-theatre. Knockem, Whit and Edgeworth bring the enmasked Win and Mrs. Overdo (who is drunk and on the verge of tossing her puritan cookies). Whit offers the 'whores' to Overdo. Wasp enters, and is informed that everyone knows he was in stocks. A photomodel in wooden stocks Public Stocks The stocks are a device used for public humiliation, corporal punishment, and torture. ...

Now the puppet-show begins. Littlewit's dialogue proves to be insipid, filthy, and in every way vulgar. Cokes foolishly attempts to talk to the puppets.

Busy storms in and interrupts the puppet-play, pronouncing it an "abomination," using the old puritan argument that cross-dressing on the stage is an outrage. He is convinced to hold a Disputation with the charming puppet Dionysius, who answers his charge by pulling up gown and showing it has no genetalia. Busy is 'converted.' Overdo reveals himself. In the scholastic system of education of the middle ages, disputations (in Latin: disputationes, singular: disputatio) offered a formalised method of debate designed to uncover and establish truths in theology and in other sciences. ... Several people in history have been known by the name Dionysius: Dionysius of Syracuse, a tyrant Dionysius the Elder, a Greek mythological figure Dionysius the Areopagite, a citizen of Corinth who was converted by Paul of Tarsus Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, identified by some with a Georgian theologist Peter the...

Quarlous, disguised as "Trouble-All," enters, interrupting Overdo's accusation of Whit, Knockem, and Edgeworth. Littlewit looks for his wife. A gorills overturns all. Overdo unmasks one nasty whore, who turns out, to his astonishment, to be Win. The true Trouble-All comes in with Ursula and Nightingale, naked except for her scalding-pan. Quarlous is exposed. Mrs. Overdo pukes and is revealed, while Overdo is merely confused. Quarlous makes it clear that Edgeworth is really a cutpurse, he has the license Winwife needs to marry Grace, and he has married Dame Purecraft. He commands Overdo to forgive all and invite all to dinner, which he humbly does. Binomial name Luscinia megarhynchos (Brehm, 1831) The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. ...