Jonson, Marston, Highgate, Horns
Jonson, Marston, Highgate, Horns
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琼森、马斯顿、海格特、霍恩斯
DOI:
10.1093/notesj/gjaa086
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发表时间:
2020
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0.1
通讯作者:
Steggle M
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作者:
Steggle M
The village of Highgate, now part of North London but in earlier centuries a separate settlement on the hills overlooking the city, has some unusual and specific traditions around horns. These traditions were first recorded in the seventeenth century; enjoyed their heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they constituted a major tourist attraction; and, after a period of relative quiet in the twentieth century, are today once again regularly practised in the local pubs. Up till now, the earliest known record of them is from the year 1638. But this note will argue that they are represented twice in early modern drama: in John Marston’s comedy Jack Drum’s Entertainment (1600) and in Ben Jonson’s A