Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village / Laura Amy Schlitz ; illustrated by Robert Byrd.
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.
Maidens, monks, and millers' sons -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling live eels; and the peasant's daughter, Mogg, who gets a clever lesson in how to save a cow from a greedy landlord. There's also mud-slinging Barbary (and her noble victim); Jack, the compassionate half-wit; Alice, the singing shepherdess; and many more. With a deep appreciation for the period and a grand affection for both characters and audience, Laura Amy Schlitz creates twenty-two riveting portraits and linguistic gems equally suited to silent reading or performance. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by Robert Byrd -- inspired by the Munich-Nuremberg manuscript, an illuminated poem from thirteenth-century Germany -- this witty, historically accurate, and utterly human collection forms an exquisite bridge to the people and places of medieval England.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780763650940
- ISBN: 0763650943
- Physical Description: 95 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: Second paperback edition.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-95). |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Target Audience Note: | NP Lexile grades 5-9 ages 10-14 |
Awards Note: | A Junior Library Guild selection. Newbery Medal, 2008. Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2008. |
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Subject: | Middle Ages > Juvenile drama. Monologues > Juvenile literature. Children's plays, American. Middle Ages > Drama. Monologues. Plays. Monologues. Drama > Collections. > Drama. Middle Ages. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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North Pocono Public Library | JUV 812.6 SCHLITZ (Text) | 50691010842818 | Juv Nonfiction | Available | - |