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A Weaver-Poet and the Plague : Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare's London /

"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"

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oldenburg, Scott 1969- (Author, VerfasserIn.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:"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"
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.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (284 pages).
ISBN:9780271088730