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"
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2020]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780271088730 |