One Hundred Merry Tales and Other English Jestbooks

by Paul M. Zall

A Hundred Merry Tales and Other English Jestbooks of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Landmark Edition) [Nov 01, 1977] Zall, Paul M.

396 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1977

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1484-1584

Caxton's Fables of Alfonce and Poge (1484)
A Hundred Merry Tales (1526), Howleglas (?1528)
Tales and Quick Answers (?1535)
Merry Tales...Made by Master Skelton (1567)
Thomas Deloney's translation DesPerier's Mirrour of Mirth (1583).


1509 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

+ [Mad/wise] Men of Gotham (or gottam)



Hundred merry tales (1526) - ?
v. 1. A hundred merry talys*, from the only known copy. Mery tales and quicke answeres*, from the rare edition of 1567.--v. 2. Merie tales of Skelton*. Jests of Scogin. Sackfull of newes. Tarleton's jests. Merrie conceited jests of George Peele. Jacke of Dover.--v. 3. Merie tales of the mad men of Gotham. XII mery jests of the Wydow Edyth. Pasquils jests with Mother Bunches merriments. The pleasant conceits of Old Hobson. Cerayne conceyts and jeasts. Taylors wit and mirth. Conceits, clinches, flashes and whimzies https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

- for v. 2. + v. 3. Check https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...