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Article Excerpt
Paola Pugliatti. Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. vii, 233. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0344-X.
Paola Pugliatti's argument involves assuming that literary historians and critics have not grasped the source of the early modern English anxiety, recorded in a notorious 1572 statute, that equated actors with vagabonds, sturdy beggars, and rogues. In her opinion, the god Proteus provides the key: early modern beggars, rogues, and players all depended upon self-transformation, disguise, and lies for their success, in short upon "deceptive myth-making" (p. 41). Often adopting a Marxist view, Pugliatti characterizes early modern English society as driven by a Reformation Protestant emphasis upon work and a corresponding hostility toward sturdy beggars and vagrants, who survive by adopting various disguises of physical incapacity...
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