The Gentle CraftIn this volume Simon Barker offers Deloney's tale in modern typography, with explanatory notes and an extensive introduction, a detailed account of the sources and influence of the book, its publication history, and what is known of its author. He suggests that Deloney's combination of romance with the practical morality of an emerging social class produced a text that is uniquely important for those interested in late-Elizabethan popular culture. |
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Page xxvi
... Shoemaker's Holiday is , however , a great deal less precise . There are fewer than half - a - dozen London place names in Deloney's story of Simon Eyre , and it was thus left to Dekker to give the story a geography in his appropriation ...
... Shoemaker's Holiday is , however , a great deal less precise . There are fewer than half - a - dozen London place names in Deloney's story of Simon Eyre , and it was thus left to Dekker to give the story a geography in his appropriation ...
Page xxvii
... Shoemaker's Holiday came not long after Shakespeare's Henry V , raising questions about who the king is at the end of the play : Henry VI of Eyre's time or the ideologically and symbolically important Henry V. - Dekker's play has a ...
... Shoemaker's Holiday came not long after Shakespeare's Henry V , raising questions about who the king is at the end of the play : Henry VI of Eyre's time or the ideologically and symbolically important Henry V. - Dekker's play has a ...
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... Shoemaker's Holiday ( Manchester , Manchester University Press , 1979 ) . Spufford , M. , Small Books and Pleasant Histories : Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth - century England ( London : Methuen , 1981 ) . Stevenson ...
... Shoemaker's Holiday ( Manchester , Manchester University Press , 1979 ) . Spufford , M. , Small Books and Pleasant Histories : Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth - century England ( London : Methuen , 1981 ) . Stevenson ...
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