Up to 90 off textbooks at amazon canada plus free two day shipping for six months when you sign up for amazon prime for students. Fat king lean beggar representations of poverty in the age of shakespeare cornell studies in security affairs hardcover by william k carroll 1996 02 08 books amazonca. Pinvestigating representations of poverty in tudor stuart england fat king lean beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets pamphleteers government functionaries and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds william c carroll analyzes these conflicting truths and reveals the various aesthetic political and socio economic purposes renaissance . This book engages the massive and complex social problem of poverty and its representations in the tudor stuart period while my account relies on the important work of historians such as a l beier roger b manning paul slack and keith wrightson among many others it also differs from that work in several ways above all i seek to examine various cultural representations of the poor and . William c carroll ithaca and london cornell university press 1996 william carrolls fat king lean beggar representations of poverty in the age of shakespeare investigates territory where slightly divergent trails have been blazed by some distinguished and sometimes controversial recent works annabel pattersons shakespeare and the popular voice 1989 richard helgersons forms of