A Dream of John Ball
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A Dream of John Ball (
Depiction of the Middle Ages
Morris draws on
The novel describes a dream and time travel encounter between the
A parallel can be drawn with the novel's close contemporary—
Publication history
The story was originally published in serial format in the socialist weekly
Kelmscott, Morris's private press, published, in 1892, A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson.[5]
See also
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) by Mark Twain
- Looking Backward (1888), by Edward Bellamy
Footnotes
- ^ a b Froissart, although unsympathetic to the rebels, gives a detailed, albeit imaginary (see Dobson, R.B. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, (Macmillan, 2nd ed, p. 369)), account of Ball's preaching.
- Et, se venons tout d'un père et d'une mere, Adam et Eve, en quoi poent il dire ne monstrer que il sont mieux signeur que nous, fors parce que il nous font gaaignier et labourer ce que il despendent? Il sont vestu de velours et de camocas fourés de vair et de gris, et nous sommes vesti de povres draps. Il ont les vins, les espisses et les bons pains, et nous avons le soille, le retrait et le paille, et buvons l'aige. Ils ont le sejour et les biaux manoirs, et nous avons le paine et le travail, et le pleue et le vent as camps, et faut que de nous viengne et de nostre labeur ce dont il tiennent les estas.
- If we all spring from a single father and mother, Adam and Eve, how can they claim or prove that they are lords more than us, except by making us produce and grow the wealth which they spend? They are clad in velvet and camlet lined with squirrel and ermine, while we go dressed in coarse cloth. They have the wines, the spices and the good bread: we have the rye, the husks and the straw, and we drink water. They have shelter and ease in their fine manors, and we have hardship and toil, the wind and the rain in the fields. And from us must come, from our labour, the things which keep them in luxury
- Et, se venons tout d'un père et d'une mere, Adam et Eve, en quoi poent il dire ne monstrer que il sont mieux signeur que nous, fors parce que il nous font gaaignier et labourer ce que il despendent? Il sont vestu de velours et de camocas fourés de vair et de gris, et nous sommes vesti de povres draps. Il ont les vins, les espisses et les bons pains, et nous avons le soille, le retrait et le paille, et buvons l'aige. Ils ont le sejour et les biaux manoirs, et nous avons le paine et le travail, et le pleue et le vent as camps, et faut que de nous viengne et de nostre labeur ce dont il tiennent les estas.
- ^ Claverhouse, in Walter Scott's Old Mortality (1816), ch. 35.
- ^ Salmon. "A reassessment" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ISBN 978-1-4039-1294-7
- ^ A king's lesson is a short story based on the life of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary.
External links
- A Dream of John Ball, scanned illustrated books from Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg
- A Dream of John Ball public domain audiobook at LibriVox