Item #153459 Elizabethan Popular Culture. Leonard R. N. Ashley.
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Elizabethan Popular Culture

Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Publisher: Popular Press 1, June 1988.
ISBN: 0879724269
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. Hardcover with jacket. Uncreased and unmarked

Item #153459

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