10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JESTBOOK»
Discover the use of
jestbook in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
jestbook and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Terra Tenebrarum, Love's
Jestbook, and Other Verses
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
William Knox Johnson, 2012
2
Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North ...
ENGLAND (jestbook): Hazlitt Shakespeare 2:153-54, 1864. UNITED STATES (
jokebook): Landon Wit 497, c. 1901. NEW JERSEY: Halpert Pines 449, 681,
1947. TEXAS (Spanish): Aiken PTFS 12:55, 1935. The Lawyer's Dog Steals Meat
.
3
Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox
56 Prescott, "Humanism in the Tudor Jestbook," 13. 57 Keith Thomas, "The Place
of Laughter in Tudor and Stuart England," 78; subsequent citations are annotated
within the text. Thomas uncovers the doubleness in the jestbook — whose ...
4
Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the ...
The increase in jestbook production during this period could suggest that printed
texts or readings from them were providing substitutes for pleasures that could no
longer be openly indulged. Certainly scholars of politeness have tended to ...
5
Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The Performance ...
Other observers invoked the recently deceased comic actor Richard Tarlton or
the jestbook fool John Scoggin: as John Lyly rhymed the charge, “These tinkers
termes, and barbers jestes first Tarleton on the stage, / Then Martin in his bookes
of ...
Dr Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Dr Elizabeth Williamson, 2013
6
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640
The most interesting early usage noted by the OED is found in William Cowper's
Truth (1781): 'The Scripture was his jest-book, whence he drew Bons-mots to gall
the Christian and the jew' (OED, s.v. 'jestbook', OED <http://Www.oed.com> ...
7
Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood: Mapping the World in ...
[Dickens], 'Proposals for aNational JestBook'; [BrowneandHenry Morley], '
Perfectly Contented', inHousehold Words, 14:338 (September13,1856), 213–
216. 99. Inthesameperiod Dickenspublished threearticleson themismanagement
of the ...
8
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works
The first extant edition of The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets
appeared in 1604 as the concluding part of a jestbook called Jack of Dover, His
Quest of Inquiry for the Veriest Fool in England. William Ferbrand, the publisher,
had ...
Thomas Middleton, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, 2010
9
Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby: South Georgia Folktales
Yet with the noodle tales' being part of the jestbook tradition, approximate dates
can be assigned to those found, according to Clouston, "in the early Buddhist
books, especially in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories, which are said to have been ...
Mariella Glenn Hartsfield, 2009
10
The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the ...
But precisely as jestbook, The Aratgnment reveals the darker side of misogynist
humor. Swetnam's vignettes of domestic mayhem approach the grotesque. His
sketch of life with a widow, for example, positions all three characters in a low-life
...
Anne M. Haselkorn, Betty Travitsky, 1990
