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English Villainies Discovered by Lantern and Candlelight by Thomas Dekker

Benbow, R. Mark. "Thomas Dekker and Some Cures for the 'City Gout.'" The Yearbook of English Studies 5, (1975): 52-69

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Thomas Dekker called debt the 'city gout.' His observations in debtor's prison are recorded in his work English Villainies Discovered by Lantern and Candlelight. Dekker described the prisoners using a series of complex metaphors, spanning from caged animals to diseases of the body politic. His tone fuses mixture of pity and revulsion. Of justices who condemn the prisoners, he said: "the sickman sends to his doctor, the wounded man to his surgeon: you [the JPs] are both, and the common-wealth cries out to you for remedy"(Benbow 59). The law must be obeyed, although but Dekker also says he despises bloodthirsty creditors. "What is asked for is not forgiveness, but pity which will alleviate but not eliminate the obligations of the debtor" (Benbow 59). Dekker alternately condemns the debtor and the creditor and his confusion about who is to blame may be rooted in the fact that English law was notoriously simplistic and harsh in treating all forms and causes of debt the same.

Hibbard G.R. Review of Selected Prose Writings by Thomas Dekker; E.D. Pendry.

The Modern Language Review, 64. 1 (1969): 139-140.

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This is a review of a collection of Dekker's prose works. Dekker was primarily known as a dramatist. However, "Dekker's activities in the field of occasional prose… he resorted to, somewhat reluctantly, in a vain effort to eke out the scanty living that he made as a playwright" (Hibbard 139). Dekker often penned moralistic tracts to please the public with titles like Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish. When reviewing Dekker's prose, it is thus important to consider what motivated him as a writer. He was writing to make money, and liked to select lurid and sensationalistic topics as a result. His moralizing was designed to please the conventional wisdom of the time, not question it.

Muldrew, Craig. "A Mutual Assent of Her Mind'? Women, Debt, Litigation and Contract in Early Modern England." History Workshop Journal, 55 (2003): 47-71.

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