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The Gentle Craft - By Thomas Deloney (Paperback)
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The Gentle Craft - By Thomas Deloney (Paperback)
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Although it was probably conceived as a trilogy, only the first two
parts of Thomas Deloney's prose romance were completed, dealing
with the origins of the shoemaker's trade and how it succeeded in
London. The Gentle Craft is best known as the principal source of
Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday. But Deloney's tale of
Simon Eyre, who founded Leadenhall, the centre of the leather
trade, and rose to be Lord Mayor of London, is itself significant
for its adaptation of euphemistic romances and jestbooks. In this
volume the author offers in modern typography, with explanatory
notes and an extensive introduction, an account of the sources and
influence of the book, its publication history and what is known of
its author. He suggests that Deloney's combination of romance with
the practical morality of an emerging social class produced a text
that is uniquely important for those interested in late-Elizabethan
popular culture.
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