The English wits : literature and sociability in early modern England /
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion....
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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