Villeins and Vermin, Simpletons and Saints
Subtitle: voices from a medieval village
By: by Laura Amy Schlitz ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.
Contributors: Hyman, Trina Schart, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Subjects: Middle Ages -- Juvenile drama.; Monologues -- Juvenile literature.; Children's plays, American.; Middle Ages -- Drama.; Monologues.; Plays.
Genres: Juvenile drama.; Juvenile literature.; Drama.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ).
Table of contents: value: Hugo, the Lord's newphew; value: Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter; value: Will, the ploughboy; value: Alice, the shepherdess; value: Constance, the pilgrim; value: Thomas, the doctor's son; value: Mogg, the villein's daughter; value: Otho, the miller's son; value: Jack, the half-wit; value: Simon, the knight's son; value: Edgar, the falconer's son; value: Isobel, the Lord's daughter; value: Barbary, the mud-slinger; value: Jacob Ben Salomon, the money-lender's son and Petronell, the merchant's daughter; value: Lowdy, the varlet's child; value: Pask, the runaway; value: Piers, the glassblower's apprentice; value: Mariot and Maud, the glassblower's daughters; value: Nelly, the sniggler; value: Drago, the tanner's apprentice; value: Giles, the beggar.