Good masters! Sweet Ladies! :

By: Schlitz, Laura AmyContributor(s): Byrd, Robert [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Second paperback editionDescription: 95 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780763650940 (pbk.); 0763650943 (pbk.)Other title: Original title: Villeins and vermin, simpletons and saintsSubject(s): Middle Ages -- Juvenile drama | Monologues -- Juvenile literature | Children's plays, American | Drama -- Juvenile literature | Children's plays, American | Middle Ages | MonologuesGenre/Form: Drama. | Juvenile works.
Contents:
Foreword -- Setting -- Hugo, the Lord's nephew -- Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter -- Will, the plowboy -- A little background : the three-field system -- Alice, the shepherdess -- Thomas, the doctor's son -- Constance, the pilgrim -- A little background : medieval pilgrimage -- Mogg, the villein's daughter -- Otho, the miller's son -- Jack, the half-wit -- Simon, the knight's son -- A 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 -- A little background : Jews in medieval society -- Lowdy, the varlet's child -- Pask, the runaway -- A 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.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection. | Newbery Medal, 2008. | Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2008.Summary: 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.
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Foreword -- Setting -- Hugo, the Lord's nephew -- Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter -- Will, the plowboy -- A little background : the three-field system -- Alice, the shepherdess -- Thomas, the doctor's son -- Constance, the pilgrim -- A little background : medieval pilgrimage -- Mogg, the villein's daughter -- Otho, the miller's son -- Jack, the half-wit -- Simon, the knight's son -- A 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 -- A little background : Jews in medieval society -- Lowdy, the varlet's child -- Pask, the runaway -- A 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 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.