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This play begins with a Stage-Keeper apologizing to the audience for the delayed start, saying that there's a problem with one of the players' black silk stockings. The Stage-Keeper then criticizes the play for lacking elements like jugglers and trained apes, but he's shooed off stage by the Book-Keeper. The servant Humphrey Waspe comes to town in search of a marriage license, and gets into a fight with Knockem, resulting in a trip to the stocks, but the lawyer Trouble-All shows up and demands a warrant. It's revealed that Littlewit's stage puppets have no genitalia, and therefore cannot be guilty of crossdressing. The characters then pair off with Dame Purecraft being won by Quarlous at the house of Justice Adam Overdo. Also known for featuring the Puritan Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, FTP, name this Jacobean play about misadventures at a summer festival in London, a work by Ben Jonson.
This play begins with a Stage-Keeper apologizing to the audience for the delayed start, saying that there's a problem with one of the players' black silk stockings.
{Bartholomew Fayre}: A Comedy