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The Review of English Studies 2006 57(229):176-184; doi:10.1093/res/hgl037
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press 2006; all rights reserved

Jonson's Bartholomew Fair and Bancroft's Dangerous Positions

John Creaser

Mansfield College, Oxford

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.


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