'The Rethoricke of Pedlers, Tinkers, Coblers, Rogues' : Popularizing National Identity in Elizabethan Pamphlets and Plays

Title
'The Rethoricke of Pedlers, Tinkers, Coblers, Rogues' : Popularizing National Identity in Elizabethan Pamphlets and Plays

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 3375A, 1999.

Description
Juxtaposition of sixteenth-century editions of works of Chaucer and Langland with Elizabethan plays and pamphlets shows how the later authors use "Reformation-inspired literary traditions" to develop a sense of popular traditions that bind together the English people.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.