Ashton gathers the cheap street literature of Stuart England: broadside ballads such as “The Woman to the Plow and the Man to the Hen Roost” and “An Invitation to Lubberland”, along with bawdy jests, mock inventories, satires on fashion and pride, and songs of fencers and farmers, many reproduced with their original woodcuts.
A rich browsing book for anyone curious about what ordinary people laughed at in the age of Cromwell and Charles II. Download the free EPUB.