Question

give critical appreciation for the story the shoemaker​

Answer 1

Answer:

Thomas Dekker, an Englishman of probable Dutch descent, was a true son of London, as his plays, and especially The Shoemaker’s Holiday, attest. Happy in its blending of quasi-history and ordinary London life, this plot contains young noblemen, solid merchants, artisans, and even a king. Surely the theme and treatment gave the play wide popularity in Dekker’s own day. This drama, with its appeal to patriotic instincts, formed part of the Lord Admiral’s Men’s answer to the popular history plays being written at the moment by William Shakespeare, who wrote for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Dekker derived his plot from a prose tale, The Gentle Craft by Thomas Deloney.