Description
This is a Bengali summary of key historical information regarding the 1590s crisis in England. It was created as a basis from which the artists could develop their own narratives. It also incorporates Bengali translations of excerpts from historical accounts, Platt's preface and experiments in his Remedies for Famine, Shakespeare's Henry IV, and poems on famine and dearth from this period. This resource was created mainly for the scroll painters who could not read the original texts and historical records in English.
Creator
Mukherjee, Ayesha
Source
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2.
"Famine", "Of Dearth", "Gluttony", in Englands Parnassus, ed. Robert Allott (London: 1600).
Ayesha Mukherjee, Penury into Plenty: Dearth and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern England. Routledge Research in Early Modern History. London and New York: Routledge, 2015.
Publisher
University of Exeter
Date
2019-12
Contributor
Dutta, Shrutakirti
Mukherjee, Ayesha
Rights
CC BY-NC
Language
Bengali
Type
Text
Coverage
England; 1595-98