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The politics of mirth : Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the defense of old holiday pastimes

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. -- Publsiher's website
Print Book, English, 1986
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226504513, 9780226504520, 0226504514, 0226504522
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Pastimes and the purging of theater: Ben Jonson's Love restored and Bartholomew fair
The court restored to the country: The vision of delight, Christmas his masque, and The devil is an ass
Pleasure and virtue reconciled: Jonson's celebration of the Book of sports, 1618 and 1633
Churchman among the maypoles: Herrick and the Hesperides
Milton's anti-laudian masque
Pastimes without a court: Richard Lovelace and Andrew Marvell