A Hundred Merry Tales: The Shakespeare Jest Book: Classic Renaissance comic stories of fat friars, foolish priests, domestic rivalry and London daily life from the Tudor England of Henry VIII by John

Description - A Hundred Merry Tales: The Shakespeare Jest Book: Classic Renaissance comic stories of fat friars, foolish priests, domestic rivalry and London daily life from the Tudor England of Henry VIII by John Rastell

Originally published in 1524-5, this charming collection of amusing (sometimes scurrilous) anecdotes was celebrated by contemporaries among the defining books of the Tudor era, and even name-checked by Shakespeare. The first edition to draw on all 4 source editions, and the first to bring together all 103 tales including rediscovered lost passages.

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A Hundred Merry Tales: The Shakespeare Jest Book: Classic Renaissance comic stories of fat friars, foolish priests, domestic rivalry and London daily life from the Tudor England of Henry VIII

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