Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613 Merry Worlds

Inhaltsverzeichnis: 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 -- 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) -- '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.