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A Weaver-Poet and the Plague : Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare's London /
William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague's microhistorical approach uses Muggins's life and writing, in which he articulat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400-1700 ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Silk-Weavers' Song
- 1. Company and Complaint: The Limits of Craft Identity
- 2. Life and Debt in the Poultry: The Communal Bonds of the Parish
- 3. Grief and Grievance: Communal Elegy in St. Olave's Parish
- 4. The Jeremiah of Southwark: The Prophetic Poetry of William Muggins
- Epilogue: The Horizon of the Past
- Appendix: London's Mourning Garment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index