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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
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Smithfield was an open, grassy area located outside the Wall. Because of its location close to the city centre, Smithfield was used as a site for markets, tournaments, and public executions. From
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Body o’ the Fair(2.5.71) procuress of pork and prostitutes, and living incarnation of carnival excess. More darkly, she is described as a
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quagmire, dripping sweat as she lumbers around her pig stand, the economic centre of Bartholomew Fair. Does Jonson’s imagery of Ursula’s carnival physicality invoke elements of the marketplace and commercial exchange? Do her crude sexuality and rejection of accepted Jacobean parameters of beauty function as a warning that the Fair, like a woman’s body, is beyond mans control? (