Elizabethan
Popular Culture
Leonard R. N. Ashley
Popular Press
Hey nonny nonny!
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 “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.
Leonard R. N. Ashley is professor of English at Brooklyn College of
the City University of New York and author of many books, including The Wonderful World of Superstition, Prophecy, and Luck.
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Spring 2010
LC: 88-071063 DA
324 pp. 6 x 9
50 b/w illus.
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