Not home: Alehouses, ballads, and the vagrant husband in early modern England

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 493-518

  Fumerton, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 63749100622     PISSN: 10829636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10829636-32-3-493     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Cited by A. L. Beier, in Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560-1640 (London: Methuen, 1985), 80
2. See esp. Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1830 (London: Longman, 1983), 6, 14, 43, 44
3. Richard Rawlidge, A Monster Late FovndOvt and Discovered. . . (Amsterdam, 1629), 22-23
4. Clark, English Alehouse, 49
5. Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)
6. Theodore B. Leinwand, "Spongy Plebs, Mighty Lords, and the Dynamics of the Alehouse," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 19 (1989): 159-84
7. George Evans Light, "All Hopped Up: Beer, Cultivated National Identity, and Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1525-1624," Journal X 2 (1988): 159-78
8. S. K. Roberts, "Alehouses, Brewing, and Government under the Early Stuarts," Southern History: A Review of the History of Southern England 2 (1980): 45-71
9. and Alan Everitt, "The English Urban Inn, 1560-1760," in Perspectives in English Urban History, ed. Alan Everitt (London: Macmillan, 1973), 91-137
10. For a review of many of the more recent books cited above, see George Evans Light, "The Toper's Cupful: Alcohol and Early Modern England since Peter Clark's The English Alehouse (1983)," Social History of Alcohol Review (forthcoming)
11. see also David W. Gutzke, Alcohol in the British Isles from Roman Times to 1996: An Annotated Bibliography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996)
12. Clark, English Alehouse, 15, 123-44, 152-54
13. Wrightson, "Alehouses, Order, and Reformation," 8-11
14. Paul Griffiths, Youth and Authority: Formative Experiences in England, 1560-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 176-234
15. Clark, English Alehouse, 112, 115, 145
16. Wrightson, "Alehouses, Order, and Reformation," 27
17. and Leinwand, "Spongy Plebs."
18. Clark, English Alehouse, 273, 195
19. William Vaughan, The Spirit of Detraction Conivred [sic] and Convicted in Seven Circles. . . (London, 1611), 129
20. Clark cites the Oxford incident, English Alehouse, 67
21. Rawlidge describes the "Dogge-holes," A Monster Late Eovnd Ovt, 23
22. See also Clark, English Alehouse, 4, 64-67
23. The Shirburn Ballads, 1585-1616, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907), 141
24. Robert Younge, Sinne Stigmatized (London, 1630), 269
25. Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
26. Natascha Wurzbach, The Rise of the English Street Ballad, 1550-1650, trans. Gayna Walls (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
27. Mark W. Booth, The Experience of Songs (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981), 97-114
28. Alan Bold, The Ballad (New York: Methuen, 1979), 66-82
29. Frederick O. Wage, "Social Themes in Urban Broadsides of Renaissance England," Journal of Popular Culture 11 (1977): 731-41
30. Leslie Shepard, The Broadside Ballad: A. Study of Origins and Meaning (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1962)
31. C. H. Firth, "Ballads and Broadsides," in Shakespeare's England: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age, vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916), 511-38
32. and Hyder E. Rollins, "The Black-Letter Broadside Ballad," PMLA 34 (1919): 258-339
33. Henry Chettle, Kind-Hartes Dreame (1592), collected together with William Kemp, Nine Daies Wonder (1600), ed. G. B. Harrison (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1966), 19, 15
34. Rollins, "Black-Letter Broadside Ballad," 324
35. see Griffiths, Youth and Authority, 330 n. 172
36. See especially Shepard, Broadside Ballad, 47-48
37. and Booth, Experience of Songs, 110-11
38. Rollins, "Black-Letter Broadside Ballad," 282-84, 292-95
39. Firth, "Ballads and Broadsides," 512
40. On the disposable uses of broadsides, see Rollins, "Black-Letter Broadside Ballad," 262-64, 296-97, 331
41. and Margaret Spufford, Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and Its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 48-49
42. On dividing ballads into two parts, see Rollins, "Black-Letter Broadside Ballad," 316
43. A modern edition of the ballad, without illustrations, can be found in A Collection of Songs and Ballads Relative to the London Prentices and Trades; and to the Affairs of London Generally, during the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries, ed. Charles Mackay (London, 1841), 134
44. modernized in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. W. Chappell, vol. 1 (Hertford, U.K., 1869), 413 (ll. 5, 9) and 416 (ll. 97-100)
45. Ian W. Archer, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 196
46. Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters, 14. Bennett further argues that mockings of alewives, as evident in Skelton's The Tunning of Elinour Rummyng and contemporary jestbooks, "displaced anxieties about the trade in general onto female traders in particular, and in so doing, they worked to inhibit commercial brewing by women" (123)
47. On the subject of women's restricted labors and containment within the home, see also Steve Rappaport, Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 36-42
48. and Richard Helgerson, "The Buck Basket, the Witch, and the Queen of Faeries: The Women's World of Shakespeare's Windsor," in Everyday Life in Early Modern Europe, ed. Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 162-82
49. Joy Wiltenburg, Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992), 214-23
50. Frances E. Dolan, Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994), 20-58
51. See also Gowing, Domestic Dangers, 201-29
52. Good Fellows Frolick, Roxburghe Ballads, part 4, 49