A weaver-poet and the plague: labor, poverty, and the household in Shakespeare's London
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Beteilige Person: Oldenburg, Scott 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700
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Abstract:Introduction : the silk-weavers' song -- Company and complaint : the limits of craft identity -- Life and debt in the poultry : the communal bonds of the parish -- Grief and grievance : communal elegy in St. Olave's Parish -- The Jeremiah of Southwark : the prophetic poetry of William Muggins -- Epilogue : the horizon of the past
"A narrative of Elizabethan London through the eyes of William Muggins, an impoverished silk-weaver who wrote poetry about the plague, motherhood, childrearing, poverty, and the responsibility individuals have to one another"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:275 Seiten
ISBN:9780271087153