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

by Scott Oldenburg

Book Overview

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 radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and mutual aid, as a gateway into a broader narrative about London's "middling sort" during the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271087161
• ISBN13: 9780271087160
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"