Elizabethan Popular Romance and the Popular Novel
This chapter concerns the work of writers who proclaim their commitment to a readership of commoners: craftspeople, tradesfolk, domestic servants, and others below the rank of the gentry. In doing so, the chapter reveals the voracious appetite of the marketplace of print for copy. It draws attention to the competing interests of printers and considers the question of how to make a living by writing under these circumstances. Writers experimented with different methods of turning the copy they produced into a steady income, but many failed. However, the attempt led to the extraordinary variety of prose pamphlets (short, inexpensive books) printed in the 1580s and 1590s.
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