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Description of  A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare s London (Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400 1700)

William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plagues microhistorical approach uses Mugginss life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and mutual aid, as a gateway into a broader narrative about Londons middling sort during the plague of 1603. Read more