Thomas Dekker

The Wonderful Year

Pamphlet describing the plague year of 1603 with vivid details of London's suffering

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Thomas Dekker
Thomas Dekker

Dekker was a prolific Jacobean writer who captured the texture of everyday London life in his pamphlets and prose works. His journalism-inflected writing bridges Elizabethan prose and the emerging popular press.

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