Tarlton's Jests
Subtitle: and News out of purgatory
By: with notes, and some account of the life of Tarlton, by James Orchard Halliwell.
Contributors: Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. 1820-1889.; Chettle, Henry, d. 1607?
Publisher: Printed for the Shakespeare society
Published: 1963
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Tarlton, Richard, -- d. 1588; English wit and humor
Other titles: Newes out of purgatorie.; Tarlton's News out of purgatory.; The cobler of Canterburie.; A very lamentable and wofull discours..
Notes: More or less fictitious anecdotes, many of them far older than Tarlton, who probably was in no way responsible for either work. cf. Dict. nat. biog., and introd.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Tarlton's jests: Court-witty jests.  Sound city jests, Pretty countrey jests.; title: Tarlton's Newes out of purgatory.; title: Appendix: Extracts from "The cobler of Canterburie" (an answer to "The news out of purgatorie") A very lamentable and wofull discours of the fierce fluds whiche lately flowed in Bedfordshire, in Lincolnshire, and in many other places, withe great losses of sheep and other cattel, the 5. of October, 1570.  Extract from Chettle's "Kind-Harts dreame."