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