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About The Series | |
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About This Volume | |
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List of Illustrations | |
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Introduction | |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Edited by David Bevington) | |
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Contextual Readings | |
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Popular Festivals and Court Celebrations | |
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The Rites of May | |
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From A Survey of London | |
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From Diary of a Resident in London | |
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From The Anatomy of Abuses | |
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The Ballad | |
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The Fetching Home of May | |
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Court Entertainments | |
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Kenilworth and Coventry | |
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From A Letter Descibing the Entertainment of the Queen at Kenilworth | |
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Coventry Records of the Hock Tuesday Play | |
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The Fairy Queen | |
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From Entertainment at Elvetham | |
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From The Shepheardes Calendar | |
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The Making of Men | |
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The Ranks of Men: William Harrison's Of Degrees of People | |
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From The Description of England | |
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The Formation of the Ruler: Plutarch's Life of Theseus | |
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From The Lives of Nobles Grecians and Romans | |
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The Formation of the Gentleman: Sir Thomas Elyot and Rodger Ascham | |
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From The Book Named the Governor | |
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From The Schoolmaster | |
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Working Men | |
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The Statute of Artificers | |
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From The Statute of Artificers | |
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Royal Proclaimation Regulating Chester Wages | |
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The New Man: Simon Forman's Dreams | |
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From The Autobiography of Simon Forman | |
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Female Attachments and Family Ties | |
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Amazons | |
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From The Book of the City of Ladies | |
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From The History of the World | |
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From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiments of Women | |
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Address to the Troops at Tilbury | |
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Gossips | |
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From The Schoolhouse of Women | |
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Nuns | |
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A Letter, Certifying the Incontinency of the Nuns of Syon | |
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From A Maid Hating Marriage | |
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The Virgin Queen | |
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From Speech to Parliment on Marriage and Succession | |
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From The Annals of Queen Elizabeth | |
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A Poet and Her Patron | |
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From The Description of Cooke-ham | |
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Family Ties | |
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From A New Catechism | |
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From The Christian Statue of Matrimony | |
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From Of Domestical Duties | |
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From A Crystal Glass for Christian Women | |
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Natural and Supernatural | |
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Bad Weather and Dearth | |
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From The Annals of England | |
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Metamorphosis and Monstrosity | |
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Ovid and Reginald Scot | |
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From Metamorphoses, Book 14 | |
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Bestiality and Monstrosity | |
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Prosecuting Buggery | |
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From Calendar of Assize Records | |
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Monsters and Prodigies | |
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From Of Monsters and Prodigies | |
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Fairy Belief | |
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Collecting Fairy Lore | |
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The Fairies' Farewell | |
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The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Good-fellow | |
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ICorinthians 2:1--16 | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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Illustrations | |
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Title Page of the Quarto A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
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Woodcuts fo City and Woods from the Roxburghe Ballasd | |
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Morris Dancers from the WIndow of a Gentleman'a House | |
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Maypole DAnce from Michael Drayton;s Poly-Olbion | |
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Woodcut Illustrating the Ballas "The Crost Couple" | |
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Queen Elizabeth I on a Hunt | |
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The Entertainment at Elvetham | |
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The Queen and Her Court, from Edmund Spencer's The Shepheaardes Calandar | |
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Page from Plutarch's The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans | |
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Title Page from A Catechism | |
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Title Page from George Tuberville's The Noble Art of Venery | |
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Manuscript Page from The Autobiography of SImon Forman | |
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Lascivious and Threatening Amazons from Sir Walter Raleigh's The Discovery of Guiana | |
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Amazons, Each with a Breast Removed, from John Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis | |
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Queen Elizabeth I as an Amazon | |
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Frontispiece from Samuel Rowland's 'Tis Merry When Gossip Meet | |
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Woodcut from Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies | |
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Circe Transforming Ulysses' Sailor into Animals | |
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Monster, Half-Man, Half-Pig, from Ambroise Pare's Of Monsters and Prodigies | |
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Title Page from Robin Good-fellow, His Mad Pranks | |