Elizabethan Popular Culture

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Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988 - 316 oldal

Leonard R. N. Ashley delights readers with a collection of facts and folklore of the people of Queen Elizabeth I's era. He describes sports and pastimes, religion and superstition, cooking, life in town and country, and the rising bourgeois class. In chapters titled as "Cakes and Ale," "The Playhouse and the Bearbaiting Pit," and "Hey nonny nonny," Ashley paints an enlightening portrait of a time made memorable by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Részletek a könyvből

Tartalomjegyzék

City People and Country People 28
12
Cakes and Ale 72
50
Popular Reading 116
72
Copyright

10 további fejezet nem látható

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Leonard R. N. Ashley is professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and author of many books, including The Wonderful World of Superstition, Prophecy, and Luck.

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