Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750

Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750
Author: Barry Reay
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317872630

Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups.

Popular Cultures in England, 1550-1750

Popular Cultures in England, 1550-1750
Author: Barry Reay
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: England
ISBN: 9780582489547

Unique it its approach, this book investigates the beliefs and behaviour of the people across social classes during the period 1550 to 1750.

Shakespeare And Elizabethan Popular Culture

Shakespeare And Elizabethan Popular Culture
Author: Neil Rhodes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-05-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1408143623

While much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics covered include the mystery plays, festive custom, clowns, romance and popular fiction, folklore and superstition, everyday sayings, and popular songs. These essays show how Shakespeare, throughout his dramatic work, used popular culture. A final chapter, which considers ballads with Shakespearean connections in the seventeenth century, shows how popular culture immediately after his time used Shakespeare.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England
Author: Andrew Hadfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317042069

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of cultural production (while also questioning the validity of such terminology). The authors examine how popular culture impacted upon people's everyday lives during the period, helping to define how individuals and groups experienced the world. Issues as disparate as popular reading cultures, games, food and drink, time, textiles, religious belief and superstition, and the function of festivals and rituals are discussed. This research companion will be an essential resource for scholars and students of early modern history and culture.

Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century

Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Tiffany Potter
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442641819

Top scholars in eighteenth-century studies examine the significance of the parallel devaluations of women's culture and popular culture by looking at theatres and actresses; novels, magazines, and cookbooks; and populist politics, dress, and portraiture.

My Revision Notes: OCR A-level History: Popular Culture and the Witchcraze of the 16th and 17th Centuries

My Revision Notes: OCR A-level History: Popular Culture and the Witchcraze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Author: Nicholas Fellows
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1510416323

Exam board: OCR Level: A-History Subject: First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 Target success in OCR A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. - Enables students to plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner - Consolidates knowledge with clear and focused content coverage, organised into easy-to-revise chunks - Encourages active revision by closely combining historical content with related activities - Helps students build, practise and enhance their exam skills as they progress through activities set at three different levels - Improves exam technique through exam-style questions with sample answers and commentary from expert authors and teachers - Boosts historical knowledge with a useful glossary and timeline

Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351910000

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have transformed our understanding of the past. First published in 1978, this study examines the broad sweep of pre-industrial Europe's popular culture. From the world of the professional entertainer to the songs, stories, rituals and plays of ordinary people, it shows how the attitudes and values of the otherwise inarticulate shaped - and were shaped by - the shifting social, religious and political conditions of European society between 1500 and 1800. This third edition of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study has been published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the book's publication in 1978. It provides a new introduction reflecting the growth of cultural history, and its increasing influence on 'mainstream' history, as well as an extensive supplementary bibliography which further adds to the information about new research in the area.

Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America

Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
Author: David Atkinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317049217

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.

Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe

Children's Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe
Author: A. O'Malley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137027312

This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries.