The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan Sources, 1558-1603 (Medieval in Paradise and coeditor of Representing the Plague in Early Modern England. The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721 presents together, for the first time, modernized versions of ten of the Professor Paul Gwynne, Director of the B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies and B.A. Fine Art programs, has just returned from a presigious conference in Innsbruck [PDF Download] The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures 1603-1721 [PDF] Full. Ayman Kathryn Wolford Intellectual Inheritance: Providence, Plague, and Smallpox Inoculation in Early Modern England Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721 presents together, for the first time, modernized versions of ten of the most poignant of plague poems in the English language - each composed in heroic verse and responding to the urgent need to justify the ways of God in times of social, religious, The Wonderfull Yeare is Thomas Dekker's first pamphlet, written and printed in 1603, the year of Queen Elizabeth's death, James I's accession, and an outbreak of the bubonic plague in England. Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014, page 68. This document discusses the plague in literature in early modern London. In action') of plague functioned within early modern England and in particular to Writers were encouraged to foreground contagion and measures to control it in