Thomas Deloney and the London Weavers' Company
Thomas Deloney-balladeer, novelist, and yeoman weaver-remains best known for The Gentle Craft, the source for Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday, but he was also a passionate advocate for the needs of his class. Deloney's early polemical efforts endangered his freedom, particular...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
2001
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2001, Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 981-1001 |
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| Summary: | Thomas Deloney-balladeer, novelist, and yeoman weaver-remains best known for The Gentle Craft, the source for Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday, but he was also a passionate advocate for the needs of his class. Deloney's early polemical efforts endangered his freedom, particularly a now-lost ballad "on the want of corn" and a printed letter "To the Minister and Elders of the French Church in London." He was more subtle in his novels about his own cloth trade, Iacke of Newberie and Thomas of Reading, where his idealization of his craft mixes past and present ideologies of his gild, preserved for him and for us in the London Weavers' Company's ordinances. This idealization failed to reform Deloney's gild, but the novels were successful in more material terms, since Iacke of Newberie and Thomas of Reading met with an acceptance and popularity that the printed letter or banned ballad could not. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3648988 |