200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; A note on the text; The Gentle Craft; Appendix; Explanatory notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
Biography
Simon Barker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Chichester.
