Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of figures
Introduction:'London's offspring, though the meanest'
1.'Are ye a dweller in this city, pray?': Munday's London milieu
2.'I purposed nothing, but found it to my profit':The writer in the marketplace
3.'I must needes be derided':Munday and his contemporaries
4.'Plaiers can not be better compared than to the camelion':Munday and the theatre
5.'The Mother of authenticke memory':Munday and civic history
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Tracey Hill is Principal Lecturer and Subject Leader in English at Bath Spa University College

Reviews

"Hill provides a useful sense of the complex ways in which status was determined and negotiated in early modern England." --"Studies in English Literature 1500-1900," Vol 46, Spring 2006, No 2