negative reviews. The play was also performed (some time in the 1960s) at the University of California, Berkeley, with Stacey Keach playing Overdo. Richard Eyre produced the play for the National Theatre; his first production as head of the theatre, it was performed on the Olivier Stage in mid-Victorian costume. David Bamber, David Burke, and Stephen Moore were among the cast. Of this production, Eyre himself writes, "What felt as though it might have been a true popular success … shows itself to be dismal and unachieved. In 1998, Laurence Boswell directed the play for the RSC at the Swan Theatre. Featuring Zubin Varla and Poppy Miller, the production attempted to update Jonson's cheerfully downscale milieu with "Newcastle United shirts, garish yellow tweed and plenty of atmospheric sleaze" according to The Times; this review was mildly favourable, as were the others. The production was later revived at the Young Vic. The Stratford Shakespeare Festival mounted the New World's first professional production of the play in 2009, directed by Antoni Cimolino with original music composed by Steven Page. The cast featured Tom McCamus, Lucy Peacock, and Juan Chioran. The play was performed in 2019 at the Sam Wannamaker Theatre (part of Shakespeare's Globe) in London. Notes References Barish, Jonas. Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1960. Cantor, Paul A. "Ch. 3: In defense of the marketplace: Spontaneous order in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair." In: Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox, eds. Literature and the economics of liberty: On spontaneous order in culture. Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 2009, pp. 167–224. Fincham, Kenneth, editor. The Early Stuart Church, 1603–1642. Palo Alto, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1992. Gurr, Andrew. 1992. The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642. Third ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . Goldberg, Jonathan. Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. Palo Alto, Cal: Stanford University Press, 199 Herford, C.H. and Percy Simpson. Works of Ben Jonson. Eleven Volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925–52. Jonson, Ben. Bartholomew Fair. G.R. Hibbard, editor. London: A.C. Black, 1977. Keenan, Siobhan. Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare's London. London: Arden, 2014. 120-8. Lake, Peter. The Anti-Christ's Lewd Hat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Montrose, Louis. The Purpose of Playing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Waith, Eugene. "The Staging of Bartholomew Fair." SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, 2 (1962). Watson, R.N. Ben Jonson's Parodic Strategy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1987.