Description
These are the initial research notes on sources shared with the artists, on the basis of which discussions were begun. For this story, we emphasised literary sources as well as those which reveal mundane practices undertaken by the early modern English in the 1590s to cope with food scarcity.
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
2019-08
Contributor
Dutta, Shrutakirti
Mukherjee, Ayesha
Rights
CC BY-NC
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Notes
Coverage
England; 1595-98