Vox Populi Vox Dei A Complaynt Of The Comons Against Taxes

Taxed to breaking point, the common people speak back to power in John Skelton's Vox Populi Vox Dei: A Complaynt of the Comons Against Taxes, a razor-edged Tudor political satire from the turbulent early sixteenth century. Its anger still burns today. Written as an early modern English poem in the tradition of the Renaissance complaint poem, it channels the voices of common people to expose the burden of taxation, abuses of office and the uneasy bond between monarchy and subjects. Both pass...