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Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare [Hardcover]

William C. Carroll (Author)

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Hardcover: 237 pages
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr (April 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801431859
ISBN-13: 978-0801431852
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,123,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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King Lear, Jack Straw, Jack Cade, Privy Council, Nicholas Genings, The Winter's Tale, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Harman, Virginia Company, Christopher Sly, Court of Aldermen, Robert Greene, Counterfeit Crank, Earl of Gloucester, John Taylor, King James, Nicholas Blunt, Parson Ball, Penry Williams, Queen Elizabeth, William Lambarde, British Library, Dekker's The Honest Whore, Edward Hext, John Awdeley

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Sir Thomas More: By Anthony Munday and Others by Vittorio Gabrielli on 8 pages
The Honest Whore (Globe Quartos) (2 Parts) by Thomas Dekker on 6 pages
King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
The Taming of the Shrew (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: Volume 9, The Sea Voyage, The Double Marriage, The Prophetess, The Little French Lawyer, The Elder Brother, The Maid in the Mill by Francis Beaumont in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature by Linda Woodbridge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Elizabeth Hanson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Service and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays by Judith Weil in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558-1660 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Paul Raffield on page 114, and Back Matter

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