Rogues, Vagabonds, & Sturdy Beggars
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780876360521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780876360521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780870237188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Elizabethan age was one of unbounded vitality and exuberance; nowhere is the color and action of life more vividly revealed than in the rogue books and cony-catching (confidence game) pamphlets of the sixteenth century. This book presents seven of the age's liveliest works: Walker's Manifest Detection of Dice Play; Awdeley's Fraternity of Vagabonds; Harman's Caveat for Common Cursitors Vulgarly Called Vagabonds; Greene's Notable Discovery of Cozenage and Black Book's Messenger; Dekker's Lantern and Candle-light; and Rid's Art of Juggling. From these pages spring the denizens of the Elizabethan underworld: cutpurses, hookers, palliards, jarkmen, doxies, counterfeit cranks, bawdy-baskets, walking morts, and priggers of prancers. In his introduction, Arthur F. Kinney discusses the significance of these works as protonovels and their influence on such writers as Shakespeare. He also explores the social, political, and economic conditions of a time that spawned a community of renegades who conned their way to fame, fortune, and, occasionally, the rope at Tyburn.
Author: Richard L. Greaves
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 939
ISBN-13: 1452911673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ted McCormick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-04-21
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1009275585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.