The Politics of Mirth
Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes
330 pages
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2 halftones
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5-7/8 x 9
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© 1986
"Leah Marcus's The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes is a fascinating study of why James and Charles promoted some types of rural sport and festival and of how certain literary texts participated in promoting or critiquing royal policy. . . . Marcus provocatively links texts not often studied in conjunction with one another, and she provides strong and detailed readings of those texts."—Jean E. Howard
Contents
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction: The Politics of Mirth
II. Pastimes and the Purging of Theater: Ben Jonson's Love Restored and Bartholomew Fair
III. The Court Restored to the Country: The Vision of Delight, Christmas His Masque, and The Devil Is an Ass
IV. Pleasure and Virtue Reconciled: Jonson's Celebration of the Book of Sports, 11618 and 1633
V. Churchman among the Maypoles: Herrick and the Hesperides
VI. Milton's Anti-Laudian Masque
VII. Pastimes without a Court: Richard Lovelace and Andrew Marvell
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
I. Introduction: The Politics of Mirth
II. Pastimes and the Purging of Theater: Ben Jonson's Love Restored and Bartholomew Fair
III. The Court Restored to the Country: The Vision of Delight, Christmas His Masque, and The Devil Is an Ass
IV. Pleasure and Virtue Reconciled: Jonson's Celebration of the Book of Sports, 11618 and 1633
V. Churchman among the Maypoles: Herrick and the Hesperides
VI. Milton's Anti-Laudian Masque
VII. Pastimes without a Court: Richard Lovelace and Andrew Marvell
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
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