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"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."—Jean E. Howard
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Paper edition of the 1986 original. Subtitled: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell and the defense of old holiday pastimes. A study of why James and Charles promoted some types of rural sport and festival and how certain literary texts participated in promoting or critiquing royal policy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
January 1, 1987
Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1986.
Pages
328
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780226504513