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.

About the author

Scott Oldenburg is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University. He is the author of Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Oldenburg, Scott (Associate Professor Oldenburg, Oldenburg Scott
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2022
• EAN: 9780271087160
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08716-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400-1700; Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights