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a statement or tenet contrary to received opinion or belief, or
a proposition that is (taken to be) actually self-contradictory, absurd, or intrinsically unreasonable. How does the praise of vacations described by the personified city of London in Dekker’s
how [she] came to be called a Citty(72), describing her founding, previous names, historical rulers, rapid growth, and civic organization. Since this history is well known and is recorded by many other authors and chroniclers, including Stow, why does Dekker choose to recite it once again in this particular work? How does his version of the city’s founding and growth differ in tone and style from Stow’s account? (
as the French Razor shaves off the haire(28) and, at one point, the city of Westminster rhetorically asks,
for what are Citties if they be not peopled[?](27). Is Dekker’s work as far to the side of
forgetting that I am a Citty(36), in the words of Westminster? If you were to select a previously read text to stand in opposition to
Polemical Passagesand
By the major, the typical explanation for the plague is of quite a different character when it is issued by a preacher than by the mayor. Adding further diversity to this, Dekker makes the claim in
the plague that a whore-house lays upon a city is worse(137), and almost goes as far as to blame suburbs themselves for the problem—
How happy, therefore, were cities if they had no suburbs(138). Is there some way to make coherent sense of this variety of explanations? Do they manifest themselves along consistent borders? Are there any commonalities shared by the parties in these explanations, or is everyone hurling targeted, exclusive blame, championing their own personal causes? (