Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments

Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments

Author: Gabriel Heaton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-06-17

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0199213119

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This study of Elizabethan and Jacobean royal entertainments, including tiltyard speeches and court masques, is the first to look in detail at the surviving material texts. It examines the 1602 Harefield entertainment, the 1575 Woodstock entertainment, the Merchant Taylors' and Theobalds' entertainments, and Ben Jonson's work for the Jacobean court.


The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Author: Francis James Child

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-01-03

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0486145891

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This 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentaries. Includes Parts IX and X of the original set — ballads 266-305 — plus indexes, glossary.