The King and Tinker's Garland, Containing Three Excellent Songs, Etc. [A Chapbook.]
Title | The King and Tinker's Garland, Containing Three Excellent Songs, Etc. [A Chapbook.] PDF eBook |
Author | James I (King of England) |
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Pages | 12 |
Release | 1745 |
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The King and Tinker's Garland
Title | The King and Tinker's Garland PDF eBook |
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Pages | 6 |
Release | 1745 |
Genre | Songs, English |
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The King and Tinker's Garland
Title | The King and Tinker's Garland PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1780 |
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The King and Tinker's garland, containing three excellent songs, etc. A chapbook
Title | The King and Tinker's garland, containing three excellent songs, etc. A chapbook PDF eBook |
Author | James I (King of England) |
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Release | 1780* |
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The King and Tinker's Garland
Title | The King and Tinker's Garland PDF eBook |
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Pages | 8 |
Release | 1780* |
Genre | Songs, English |
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A New Garland, Containing Three Excellent New Songs. 1. King James and the Tinker. 2. The Trooper Nan and the Little Pig. 3. Duke of Ormond
Title | A New Garland, Containing Three Excellent New Songs. 1. King James and the Tinker. 2. The Trooper Nan and the Little Pig. 3. Duke of Ormond PDF eBook |
Author | GARLAND. |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1790 |
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The King and Commoner Tradition
Title | The King and Commoner Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Truesdale |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2018-01-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351106678 |
King and Commoner tales were hugely popular across the late medieval and early modern periods, their cultural influence extending from Robin Hood ballads to Shakespearean national histories. This study represents the first detailed exploration of this rich and fascinating literary tradition, tracing its development across deeply politicized fifteenth-century comic tales and early modern ballads. The medieval King and Commoner tales depict an incognito king becoming lost in the forest and encountering a disgruntled commoner who complains of class oppression and poaches the king’s deer. This is an upside-down world of tricksters, violence, and politicized feasting that critiques and deconstructs medieval hierarchy. The commoners of these tales utilize the inversion of the medieval carnival, crowning themselves as liminal mock kings in the forest while threatening to rend and devour a body politic that would oppress them. These tales are complex and ambiguous, reimagining the socio-political upheaval of the late medieval period in sophisticated ruminations on class relations. By contrast, the early modern ballads and chapbooks see the tradition undergo a conservative metamorphosis. Suppressing its more radical elements amid a celebration of proto-panoptical kings, the tradition remerges as royalist propaganda in which the king watches his thankful subjects through the keyhole.