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

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

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

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In debt, in prison, and at odds with his livery company, Muggins was forced to move his family from the central London neighborhood called the Poultry to the far poorer and more densely populated parish of St. Olave’s in Southwark. It was here, confined to his home as that parish was devastated by the plague, that Muggins wrote his minor epic, , in 1603. The poem laments the loss of life and the suffering brought on by the plague but also reflects on the social and economic woes of the city, from the pains of motherhood and childrearing to anxieties about poverty, insurmountable debt, and a system that had failed London’s most vulnerable. Part literary criticism, part microhistory, this book reconstructs Muggins’s household, his reading, his professional and social networks, and his proximity to a culture of radical religion in Southwark. Featuring an appendix with a complete version of , this volume presents a street-level view of seventeenth-century London that gives agency and voice to a class that is often portrayed as passive and voiceless.

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