Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture

Rubin deftly reveals the impact the Faire has had on style, craft, performance, and pop culture over the past fifty years in a one-of-a-kind study." -David Ossman, member of the Firesign Theatre

Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of the Renaissance Faire's founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major "family friendly" leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Fair...