Wine Beere Ale And Tobacco A Seventeenth Century Interlude

Author : James Holly Hanford
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ISBN 13 : 9781332212705
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Wine, Beere, Ale, and Tobacco written by James Holly Hanford and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wine, Beere, Ale, and Tobacco: A Seventeenth Century Interlude, Edited With Introduction and Notes The little interlude or debate here studied and reprinted has been passed over by students of the Elizabethan drama almost in silence. It has been thought of, apparently, as a mere dramatic oddity, filling no recognized niche in the structure of literary history. And yet the piece deserves to be remembered, if only as a curious specimen of the wit of other days. It has, moreover, a wealth of contemporary allusion of a peculiarly interesting kind, illustrating particularly the tavern manners of our ancestors and the lore and language of their drinking. The piece is full of the stock witticisms, the ephemeral turns of phrase which were the modern polite conversations of those days. And finally the dialogue is after all not quite sui generis, but possesses a hitherto unrecognized significance in its relation to the academic drama and especially to the minor entertainments in vogue at Cambridge University. Definite evidence that Wine, Beere and Ale was itself written for performance at Cambridge is lacking, though it is by no means improbable that such was the case. But its immediate literary connection with the little group of Cambridge plays among which I have placed it can hardly be questioned. This connection is clearer in the first edition of the piece than in the second. I have chosen, however, to reprint the latter because of the interest of the added material. The differences, which are considerable, between the first and second editions are clearly indicated in the footnotes. The third edition differs from the second chiefly in matters of spelling and punctuation; variants of this sort, I have not thought it necessary to record. In a few cases where I have corrected obvious errors of typography in the edition of 1630, the changes have been duly noted at the bottom of the page. In collating the third edition I have made use of a copy in the possession of Mr. Alfred C. Potter of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who has very generously put his extensive collection of tobacco literature at my disposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.