Nostalgia in print and performance, 1510-1613 : merry worlds / Harriet Phillips.
| Author/creator | Phillips, Harriet, 1985- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge, MA : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Copyright Date | ©2019 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Nostalgia; Cheap Print; Performance; Chapter 1 Merry Worlds; ' ... the old world, when this countrie was called merye Englande'; 'Merrie ballads and bookes': The King in Disguise, c. 1576-c. 1775; Chapter 2 Dreamless Art for the People; The Merry World and the Culture Industry; William Elderton, A New Yorkshyre Song (1584); William Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder (1600); Thomas Nashe's Lenten Stuffe (1599); Chapter 3 Common People |
| Contents | A Lytell Geste how the Ploughman Learned his Pater Noster (1510)Protestant Ploughmen: John Bon and Mast Parson (1548); Transitions: Respublica (1553); Catholics, Comic and Nostalgic: William Stevenson, Nicholas Udall, John Heywood, and Thomas Deloney, c. 1551-1588; Chapter 4 Martin and Anti-Martin, 1588-1590; 'Such a simple ingram man as I am'; 'I sawe through his paper coffen, that it was but a cosening corse'; 'Martine the merry'; Chapter 5 Merry Histories, 1598-1599; 'For merry jeasts, they have bene showne before': The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington (1598) |
| Contents | 'Dost thou not know me?': The First Part of Edward IV (1599)Chapter 6 Shakespeare's Ballads, 1598-1610; 'This news, which is called true': The Winter's Tale (c. 1610); 'Be merry': As You Like It (c. 1598-1599); 'He wandred up and downe': King Lear (c. 1606-1610); Chapter 7 The Merry Worlds of Windsor in 1600; A Tale of Two Towns: Windsor and Windsor; Falstaff in 1600; Epilogue; References; Primary; Broadside Ballads; Other; Secondary; Index |
| Abstract | For many people in early modern England the Reformation turned the past into another country: the 'merry world'. Nostalgia for this imaginary time, both widespread and widely contested, was commodified by a burgeoning entertainment industry. This book offers a new perspective on the making of 'Merry England', arguing that it was driven both by the desires of audiences and the marketing strategies of writers, publishers and playing companies. Nostalgia in Print and Performance juxtaposes plays with ballads and pamphlets, just as they were experienced by their first consumers. It argues that these commercial fictions played a central role in promoting and shaping nostalgia. At the same time, the fantasy of the merry world offered a powerfully affective language for conceptualising longing. For playwrights like Shakespeare and others writing for the commercial stage, it became a way to think through the dynamics of audience desire and the aesthetics of repetition. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| ISBN | 9781108627603 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1108627609 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
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