A Dream of John Ball

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A Dream of John Ball is a historical fantasy novella by William Morris that imagines a time-travel encounter with the 14th-century priest and rebel John Ball during the Peasants' Revolt in England.

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instanceOf historical fantasy work
novella
political fiction
associatedWithFigure John Ball
associatedWithMovement British socialism
author William Morris
centralFigureOccupation priest
centralFigureRole rebel leader
contains vision of future society
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts medieval English peasants
religious radicalism
featuresCharacter time-travelling narrator
firstPublicationDecade 1880s
firstPublicationForm serial
genre fantasy literature
historical fantasy
political literature
hasForm prose fiction
hasIllustrationsBy William Morris
hasMoral struggle for freedom is continuous
hasSubject Peasants' Revolt of 1381
influencedBy Christian socialism
medieval chronicles
intendedAudience politically engaged readers
languageStyle archaizing English
literaryForm allegory
literaryMovement late Victorian literature
socialist literature
mainCharacter John Ball
narrativeDevice time travel
narrativePerspective first-person narrator
originalLanguage English
publicationMedium Commonweal
relatedWork News from Nowhere
settingEvent Peasants' Revolt of 1381
surface form: Peasants' Revolt
settingLocation England
settingPeriod 14th century
structure frame narrative
theme class struggle
critique of capitalism
equality
medievalism
revolution
social justice
utopian socialism
workOf William Morris

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