Schlitz, Laura Amy.
Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village / Original title: Villeins and vermin, simpletons and saints. Laura Amy Schlitz ; illustrated by Robert Byrd. - Second paperback edition. - 95 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-95)
Foreword -- Setting -- Hugo, the Lord's nephew -- Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter -- Will, the plowboy -- little background : the three-field system -- Alice, the shepherdess -- Thomas, the doctor's son -- Constance, the pilgrim -- little background : medieval pilgrimage -- Mogg, the villein's daughter -- Otho, the miller's son -- Jack, the half-wit -- Simon, the knight's son -- little background : the crusades -- Edgar, the falconer's son -- little background : falconry -- Isobel, the Lord's daughter -- Barbary, the mud slinger -- Jacob Ben Salomon, the moneylender's son and Petronella, the merchant's daughter -- little background : Jews in medieval society -- Lowdy, the varlet's child -- Pask, the runaway -- little background : towns and freedom -- Piers, the glassblower's apprentice -- Mariot and Maud, the glassblower's daughters -- Nelly, the sniggler -- Drago, the tanner's apprentice -- Giles, the beggar -- Bibliography. A A A A A
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
A Junior Library Guild selection. Newbery Medal, 2008. Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2008.
9780763650940 (pbk.) 0763650943 (pbk.)
Middle Ages--Juvenile drama.
Monologues--Juvenile literature.
Children's plays, American.
Drama--Juvenile literature.
Children's plays, American.
Middle Ages.
Monologues.
Drama.
Juvenile works.
Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village / Original title: Villeins and vermin, simpletons and saints. Laura Amy Schlitz ; illustrated by Robert Byrd. - Second paperback edition. - 95 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-95)
Foreword -- Setting -- Hugo, the Lord's nephew -- Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter -- Will, the plowboy -- little background : the three-field system -- Alice, the shepherdess -- Thomas, the doctor's son -- Constance, the pilgrim -- little background : medieval pilgrimage -- Mogg, the villein's daughter -- Otho, the miller's son -- Jack, the half-wit -- Simon, the knight's son -- little background : the crusades -- Edgar, the falconer's son -- little background : falconry -- Isobel, the Lord's daughter -- Barbary, the mud slinger -- Jacob Ben Salomon, the moneylender's son and Petronella, the merchant's daughter -- little background : Jews in medieval society -- Lowdy, the varlet's child -- Pask, the runaway -- little background : towns and freedom -- Piers, the glassblower's apprentice -- Mariot and Maud, the glassblower's daughters -- Nelly, the sniggler -- Drago, the tanner's apprentice -- Giles, the beggar -- Bibliography. A A A A A
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
A Junior Library Guild selection. Newbery Medal, 2008. Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2008.
9780763650940 (pbk.) 0763650943 (pbk.)
Middle Ages--Juvenile drama.
Monologues--Juvenile literature.
Children's plays, American.
Drama--Juvenile literature.
Children's plays, American.
Middle Ages.
Monologues.
Drama.
Juvenile works.