The Gentle Craft
By Thomas Deloney
Although it was probably conceived as a trilogy, only the first two parts of Thomas Deloney's prose romance were completed, dealing with the origins of the shoemaker's trade and how it succeeded in London. The Gentle Craft is best known as the principal source of Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday. But Deloney's tale of Simon Eyre, who founded Leadenhall, the centre of the leather trade, and rose to be Lord Mayor of London, is itself significant for its adaptation of euphemistic romances and jestbooks. In this volume Simon Barker offers in modern typography, with explanatory notes and an extensive introduction, an account of the sources…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-14650-0
- EAN: 9781351146500
- Produktnummer: 27323830
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'882 KB
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Simon Barker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Chichester.
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