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‘Poor Tom O’Bedlam’: Identifying the Subsistence Migrants of Early Modern England in Shakespeare’s King Lear (2024)
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Wood, F. (2024). ‘Poor Tom O’Bedlam’: Identifying the Subsistence Migrants of Early Modern England in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Shakespeare, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2024.2427584

In the early 1600s, English agriculture was punctuated by dearth, generated by the changes in climate and weather and exacerbated by poor resource management which affected the socio-economic circumstances of the country. This article identifies the... Read More about ‘Poor Tom O’Bedlam’: Identifying the Subsistence Migrants of Early Modern England in Shakespeare’s King Lear.