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Shakespeare's Christmas: The Festive Season in Early Modern England

Shakespeare's Christmas: The Festive Season in Early Modern England - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Maria Hubert (Editor), Andrew Hubert Von Staufer (With)Publish date:10/7/2025Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781803997629ISBN-10:1803997621UPC:9781803997629Book Category:Religion, DramaBook Subcategory:Holidays, ShakespeareBook Topic:Christmas & AdventSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC9ERGXWK1

This anthology recalls Christmas in Shakespeare's day, when it was an expansive festival, dominated by strict religious observance on the day itself, but including a long season of merrymaking, feasting and, most important of all, masques and plays. "Measure for Measure" was one of many of Shakespeare's plays first performed by "His Majestie's plaiers" during the 12-day festival at the Royal Court. Also included are little-known delights such as: the story of how Elizabeth I interrupted Shakespeare's performance by walking across the stage and dropping a glove at his feet; the 32 dishes expected to grace the table of a "modest home", including delectable Elizabethan desserts and Shakespeare's "roasted crabs hissing in the bowl"; how the barristers at Inns of Court danced before the judges; the ballad by George Wither of an Elizabethan Christmas, celebrated 16th-century poet Robert Herrick's verse on the ceremonies for Christmas, and the winter poem by the Catholic martyr, Father Robert Southwell. "The Masque of Christmas" by Shakespeare's contemporary, Ben Jonson, appears here complete, and readers learn of the ignoble goings-on of the Lord of Misrule.

Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781803997629ISBN-10:1803997621UPC:9781803997629Book Category:Religion, DramaBook Subcategory:Holidays, ShakespeareBook Topic:Christmas & AdventSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC9ERGXWK1
The late Maria Hubert (1945-2007) was a cofounder of The Christmas Archives with her husband Andrew. She combined a love of history, folk custom, literature and research with knowledge of Latin, Greek, Spanish and Catalan learned in convents in the UK and Spain. A well-qualified cook, a great deal of her love for Christmas was born of her Yorkshire Christmas food customs. She was a frequent guest on radio and television in the UK, gaining extra fame in Japan with the launch of a Christmas museum in Hokkaido. Jane Austen's Christmas is a combination of her research, Andrew's photography and their combined writing talents.
Publisher: History Press

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