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A Dream of John Ball is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally called "the Peasants' Revolt". It features the rebel priest John Ball, who was accused of being a Lollard. He is famed for his question "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"
A Dream of John Ball, a romantic fantasy in prose by William Morris, published in serial form in The Commonweal in 1886–87 and in book form in 1888. The historical figure referred to in the title was a 14th-century English priest who preached inflammatory sermons advocating a classless society; in.
A Dream of John Ball. by William Morris. Contents. THE MEN OF KENT. THE MAN FROM ESSEX. THEY MEET AT THE CROSS. THE VOICE OF JOHN BALL. THEY HEAR TIDINGS OF BATTLE AND MAKE THEM READY. THE BATTLE AT THE TOWNSHIP'S END. MORE WORDS AT THE CROSS. SUPPER AT WILL GREEN'S. BETWIXT THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. TWO TALK OF THE DAYS TO COME.
A Dream of John Ball uses a time-travel narrative to go back to a much more distant historical event than the Paris Commune — the fourteenth-century Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 — to communicate a radical political and artistic continuity with a past that exists beyond living memory.
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Duke University Libraries. Language. English. A dream of John Ball was first published in the Commonweal, 1886-87; issued in book form, 1888. A king's lesson, a short story based on the life of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, appeared in the Commonweal, Sept. 18, 1886, under title: An old story retold. Addeddate. 2010-06-02 20:25:40.
A Dream of John Ball by William Morris I. THE MEN OF KENT . Sometimes I am rewarded for fretting myself so much about present matters by a quite unasked-for pleasant dream. I mean when I am asleep. This dream is as it were a present of an architectural peep-show.
