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A nest of ninnies, and other English jestbooks of the seventeenth century. / Selected and edited by P. M. Zall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zall, Paul M., compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chapbooks, English.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 260 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1970]
- Contents:
- The blending of wit and jest: an introduction.
- Selections from Wits, fits, and fancies (1614), by A. Copley.
- A nest of ninnies (1608), by R. Armin.
- Selections from Jests to make you merry (1607), by G. Wilkins and T. D.
- Selections from Tarlton's jests (1611).
- Selections from Scogin's jests (ca. 1680).
- Selections from Wit and mirth (1629), by J. Taylor.
- Selections from Conceits, clinches, flashes, and whimzies (1639), by R. Chamberlain.
- Selections from A banquet of jests (1633-1660).
- Tales and jests of Hugh Peters (1660).
- No jest like a true jest (ca. 1670).
- Selections from Oxford jests (1671), by W. Hicks.
- Selections from The wise and ingenious companion (1700), by A. Boyer.
- ISBN:
- 0803207239
- OCLC:
- 97303
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