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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! : : Voices From a Medieval Village

Schlitz, Laura Amy. Book - 2007 R Newbery Medal 2008, Y 812 Sc 2 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.4 out of 5

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Hugo, the Lord's nephew -- Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter -- Will, the plowboy -- Alice, the shepherdess -- Thomas, the doctor's son -- Constance, the pilgrim -- Mogg, the villein's daughter -- Otho, the miller's son -- Jack, the half-wit -- Simon, the knight's son -- Edgar, the falconer's son -- Isobel, the Lord's daughter -- Barbary, the mud slinger -- Jacob Ben Salomon, the moneylender's son and Petronella, the merchant's daughter -- Lowdy, the varlet's child -- Pask, the runaway -- Piers, the glassblower's apprentice -- Mariot and Maud, the glassblower's daughters -- Nelly, the sniggler -- Drago, the tanner's apprentice -- Giles, the beggar.
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.

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Read alone, read aloud, act it out! submitted by LibraryMaven on June 16, 2014, 7:15pm What do you do if every child wants to have a starring role in the school play? If you are Laura Schlitz, you write nineteen monologues and two dialogues set in a medieval village, so that everyone gets a strong character to develop. The series of miniature plays is historically accurate and effective read silently or aloud. The voices of the characters, aged eleven to fifteen, come through clearly, as does the time period, without overly ornate language. Byrd’s manuscript-like illustrations add to the historical feel, while helpful side notes explain words and concepts that readers may be unfamiliar with. Short historical notes (one to two pages) are interspersed with the plays and give readers further information about topics within the plays, such as the three-field crop rotation system and falconry. Some readers may enjoy one or two monologues, while some may wish to read the entire book- or bits and pieces of the book can be read aloud. Really, the options with Good Masters, Sweet Ladies are endless. A strong bibliography is given at the end of the book, though some sources may be better for adults than for kids. Strongly recommended.

Intertwined Character Studies submitted by valerieclaires on August 2, 2022, 2:28pm I first heard about this book on the AADL tv Biblio Files show, on the episode about linked short story collections. Thanks for the recommendation! I did enjoy this book, both for the first-person telling of life in the middle ages and the linking between each of the characters in the village. It was neat to have a person mentioned in another character's monologue, and then have them telling their own side of the story on the next pages. I love when I can get a sense of what everyday life would be like in a historic period, and this provided so many perspectives of life in a Medieval village and all the activity there.

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SERIES
Newbery Medal book - 2008.



PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 85 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0763615781 (reinforced) :
9780763615789 (reinforced) :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Byrd, Robert.

SUBJECTS
Middle Ages -- Drama.
Monologues -- Literature.
Children's plays.
Monologues.