Contents 

Editorial 11
Janet Clare and Paola Pugliatti 
 

Part One 
Elusive, Distant, Impermanent

People and the Popular, Culture and the Cultural 19
Paola Pugliatti

 
 

Part Two 
Case Studies

Vox Populi

Demotic Voices and Popular Complaint in Elizabethan 
 and Early Stuart England 47
David Cressy

Shakespeare and the Words of Early Modern Physic: Between Academic
 and Popular Medicine. A Lexicographical Approach to the Plays 63
Roberta Mullini

‘What say the citizens’ in Shakespeare’s Richard III? 91
Ann Kaegi

Cultural Memory

The Prince and the Hobby-Horse: Shakespeare and the Ambivalence of 
 Early Modern Popular Culture 119
Natália Pikli

Behind the Happily-Ever-After: Shakespeare’s Use of Fairy Tales 
 and All’s Well That Ends Well 141
Ciara Rawnsley

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Witchcraft

In Search of the English Sabbat: Popular Conceptions of Witches’
 Meetings in Early Modern England 161
James Sharpe

Lancashire: a Land of Witches in Shakespeare’s Time 185
Luca Baratta 

Desecration: Rape and Suicide

Maps of Woe. Narratives of Rape in Early Modern England 211
Donatella Pallotti

‘Buried in the Open Fields’: Early Modern Suicide and the Case of Ofelia 241
Janet Clare

Appendix 

The Cultures of the People 255

Contributors 299