"An Idiot of the Newest Cut": Disability and Social Mobility in Lyly's Mother Bombie.

In the comedy Mother Bombie (c. 1589), John Lyly presents a highly verbal conception of human wit as a key element of emergent capitalism, presents it as inconsistent with the inheritance framework underlying Elizabethan society, and yet tries to imagine society adapting to the rising importance of...

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Published in:	Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 1 - 24
Main Author:	Bartlett, Bridget
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Fall2022
Subjects:	Human capital Symbolic capital Social disabilities Mothers Capitalism Social mobility
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