Author: Carroll, William C.
Title: Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii,237 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Vagrancy & Marginality in the Tudor-Stuart Period: Discources of Poverty; Thomas Harman & 'The Caveat for Common Cursetors'; Bedlam & Bridewell; Shakespearean Inscriptions: "The Perill of Infection": Vagrancy,Sedition and 2 Henry VI; "Would Not the Beggar Then Forget Himself?": Christopher Sly & Autolycus; "The Base Shall Top th' Legitimate": King Lear and the Bedlam Beggar; "Is Poverty a Vice?" The Disguise of Beggary.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Social History, William Shakespeare, Elisabethan England, Poverty Poor, Beggars Mendicancy, Mendicants,