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Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature

Praise and Paradox: Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature

Stevenson, Laura Caroline
Roper, Lyndal
Laura Caroline, Stevenson

Paperback

Series: Past and Present Publications

British HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 0521522072
ISBN13: 9780521522076
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 22 2002
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
Praise and Paradox explores the relationship of language, literary structure, and social ideology in the popular Elizabethan literature that praised merchants, industrialists and craftsmen. Part I defines a canon of 296 popular vernacular works, relates the increasing popularity of tales about tradesmen to the development of the English economy and the expansion of the Elizabethan audience, and discusses the social origins of the popular authors. Part II is concerned with the change of the merchant's literary image from that of a greedy usurer to that of a 'businessman in armour' who defended his monarch on the battlefield and entertained princes at lavish banquets. Part III discusses the change in the literary image of the craftsman, who ceased to be a clown or a rebel and became a 'gentle craftsman' who fought bravely on the battlefield when necessary but was happier in his humble shop, where he sang, danced, and courted pretty girls.

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