Plague Pamphlets of Thomas Dekker

by Thomas Dekker

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268 pages, Library Binding

First published December 31, 1971

About the author

Thomas Dekker (c.1572 - 1632) was an Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.

Reviews

[Roman Clodia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Plague epidemics erupted repeatedly during the Renaissance period but they are disconcertingly invisible in most of the canonical literature - apart from appearing as metaphor ('A plague on both your houses'). They did, though, give rise to a sub-genre of their own, one associated with the pamphlet rather than the book and Thomas Dekker's plague pamphlets are amongst the best.

Here we find Dekker's unstable response to both instances of the plague and to plague as a rich and dense idiom: as apocalyptic agent, as moral chastisement, as a way of encoding political disorder, and as a vehicle to articulate anxieties about urban London living and willing or unwilling intimacy.

Frequently startling, often bizarre, but compelling reading all the same, these pamphlets broaden our understanding of early modern London and its literary and material life.