Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture

Contents

• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Note on texts
• Introduction
• 1. The hobby-horse and the early modern morris dance
• 2. Living nostalgia and the cluster of allusions around 1600
• 3. Gender, prejudice, and popular dramatic medleys
• 4. The hobby-horse in university plays and on politicized public stages
• 5. Hobby-horses in cheap print and iconography (1610s–1635)
• Appendix
• Index