Ingram, Jill Phillips,

Festive enterprise : the business of drama in Medieval and Renaissance England / Jill P. Ingram. - 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : illustrations - ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One The Festive Gatherer and the Empathetic Thief: The Genealogy of a Character -- Two Forms of Investment: Mummings, Prologues, and Epilogues -- Three Reconciliation in The Winter's Tale: Devotion and Commerce from Guilds to Church Ales -- Four The Mobile Entertainer: John Taylor's Penniless Pilgrimage -- Five Coding Complaint in Gesta Grayorum and The Christmas Prince -- Six "A Jest's Prosperity": The Market, Marprelate, and Love's Labour's Lost -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography



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English drama--History and criticism.--To 1500
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Economics and literature.


Electronic Books.

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