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Paperback A Hundred Merry Tales: The Shakespeare Jest Book
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ISBN: 1910075086

ISBN13: 9781910075081

A Hundred Merry Tales: The Shakespeare Jest Book

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Rastell's A Hundred Merry Tales was the first English jest book, and would set a pattern for succeeding generations, who came to see it as a window on a lost 'Merry England.'

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 is even name-checked by Shakespeare.

This new edition of A Hundred Merry Tales presents...

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