Praise and Paradox : Merchants and Craftsmen in Elizabethan Popular Literature Book

Acknowledgements; Prefactory note; Introduction: praise and paradox; Part I. Elizabethan Popular Literature: 1. Elizabethan popular literature and its economic context; 2. The popular Elizabethan authors; 3. The popular Elizabethan audience; Part II. The Business in Armour: 4. Principal citizens and chief yeomen; 5. The merchant as usurer: a stock image in decline; 6. The merchant as knight, courtier and prince; 7. Lessons in diligence and thrift; Part III. The Gentle Craftsman: 8. Clown and rebel: the craftsman as one of 'the fourth sort of people'; 9. The gentle craftsman in Arcadia; Appendices; Index.