A Weaver-Poet and the Plague : : Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London / / Scott Oldenburg.
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 articulates a radic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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