Of making many books about Shakespeare (and to a lesser extent other Elizabethan dramatists and poets) there is no end. But of the common people of England at what may be regarded as its cultural zenith little has been written and now practically nothing is in print.<BR>Elizabethan Popular Culture undertakes to supply the need with an anthology that permits Elizabethans to speak for themselves about the concerns of their everyday lives.<BR>The drama is too easily accessible for it to take up space in this book, but the songs and stories, the jests and rogue literature, the reading of the common man in the time are well represented. There is information gathered from immensely wide research in the period's documents to give a picture of what people did and thought in "the spacious days of great Elizabeth."