Author: Linda Woodbridge
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026331
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Woodbridge shows that the prevailing image of the vagrant poor in Renaissance England--sturdy, comical, resourceful rogues who were adept at living on the fringes of society--was essentially a literary fabrication pressed into the service of specific social and political agendas.