Fat King, Lean Beggar : : Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare / / William C. Carroll.
Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds. William C. Carroll analyzes these conflicting &qu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION
- Introduction
- PART I. Vagrancy and Marginality in the Tudor-Stuart Period
- 1. Discourses of Poverty
- 2. Thomas Harman and The Caveat for Commen Cursetors
- 3. Bedlam and Bridewell
- PART II. SHAKESPEAREAN INSCRIPTIONS
- 4· "The Perill of Infection": Vagrancy, Sedition, and 2 Henry VI
- 5· "Would Not the Beggar Then Forget Himself?": Christopher Sly and Autolycus
- 6. "The Base Shall Top th'Legitimate": King Lear and the Bedlam Beggar
- 7· "Is Poverty a Vice?": The Disguise of Beggary
- Works Cited
- Index