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1973 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-272
Author(s):  
Peter G. Bietenholz
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Central Germany ◽  
Cornell University

The feuing of Strathisla: a study in sixteenth-century social history

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (First Series (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret H. B. Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social History

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Fitter
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social History ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Measure For Measure ◽  
History Of

Introducing the relatively recent discovery by the ‘new social history’ of an intelligent and sceptical Tudor popular politics, incorporated into the functioning of the state only precariously and provisionally, often insurgent in the sixteenth century, and wooed by discontented elites inadvertently creating a nascent public sphere, this chapter discusses the varied types and fortunes of plebeian resistance. It also surveys the leading ideas of the new historiography, and suggests the need to rethink the politics of Shakespeare’s plays in the light of their exuberant or embittered penetration by plebeian perspectives. Finally, it examines Measure for Measure in the light of its resistance to the polarizing, anti-populist climate of the late Elizabethan ‘reformation of manners’.

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