Fat King, Lean Beggar

Fat King, Lean Beggar
Author :
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 254
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501722486
ISBN-13 : 1501722484
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fat King, Lean Beggar by : William C. Carroll

Download or read book Fat King, Lean Beggar written by William C. Carroll and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds. William C. Carroll analyzes these conflicting "truths" and reveals the various aesthetic, political, and socio-economic purposes Renaissance constructions of beggary were made to serve.Carroll begins with a broad survey of both the official images and explanations of poverty and also their unsettling unofficial counterparts. This discourse defines and contains the beggar by continually linking him with his hierarchical inversion, the king. Carroll then turns his attention to the exemplary case of Nicholas Genings, perhaps the single most famous beggar of the period, whose machinations as fraudulent parasite and histrionic genius were chronicled by Thomas Harman. Carroll next assesses institutional responses to poverty by considering two hospitals for the destitute, Bridewell and Bedlam, and their role as real and symbolic places in Elizabethan drama.Fat King, Lean Beggar then focuses on dramatic inscriptions of poverty, primarily in Shakespeare's plays. Carroll's analysis of The Taming of the Shrew and The Winter's Tale links the tradition of the merry beggar to the socioeconomic forces of the day; and his reading of King Lear makes a case for the uniqueness of Edgar, the Bedlam beggar, in the history of drama. Carroll also considers later plays such as Fletcher and Massinger's Beggars' Bush and Richard Brome's Jovial Crew to show how idealizations of the beggar ironically equate him with a monarch in his supposed freedom.


Fat King, Lean Beggar Related Books

Fat King, Lean Beggar
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: William C. Carroll
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-18 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers
Hamlet
Language: en
Pages: 102
Authors: William Shakespeare
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1839 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Heather Dubrow
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This 1999 book examines Shakespeare's engagement with forms of deprivation which threatened domestic security in early modern England.
Unsettled
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Patricia Fumerton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth- century England. In fact, by 1650, half of England’s rural population consiste
Four Tragedies
Language: en
Pages: 978
Authors: William Shakespeare
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-26 - Publisher: Bantam Classics

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Hamlet One of the most famous plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the young prince of Denmark who must reconcile his longing for oblivion with his duty