Ink, stink bait, revenge, and Queen Elizabeth
Subtitle: a Yorkshire yeoman's household book
By: Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti
Contributors: Marotti, Arthur F., 1940- author
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780801456565; 9780801453557
Subjects: Sources; English literature; English Manuscripts; Social conditions; Notebooks, sketchbooks; History and criticism
Description: "In Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth, Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti present a recently discovered "household book" from sixteenth-century England. Its main scribe, John Hanson, was a yeoman who worked as a legal agent in rural Yorkshire. Among the literary highlights of the household book are unique copies of two ballads, whose original print versions have been lost, describing Queen Elizabeth's procession through London after the victory over the Spanish Armada; two poems attributed to Elizabeth herself; and other verse by courtly writers copied from manuscript and print sources"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Hanson manuscript; title: The Eland-Beaumont feud; title: Two lost ballads of the Armada thanksgiving celebration; title: Verse and prose from other printed sources; title: Other texts from manuscript sources; title: Recipes for ink and stink bait plus other utilitarian items.