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How to behave badly in Elizabethan England : a guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves, and braggarts
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Uniform Title
How to behave badly in Renaissance Britain
Title
How to behave badly in Elizabethan England : a guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves, and braggarts / Ruth Goodman.
ISBN
9781631495113
1631495119
Edition
First American edition.
Publication
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes
"First published in Great Britain under the title How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain"--title page verso.
Summary
Draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to illustrate the social mores of the Elizabethan Era.
Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals-- Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul. Readers will delight in learning how to time your impressions for the biggest laugh, why quoting Shakespeare was poor form, and why curses hurled at women were almost always about sex (and why we shouldn't be surprised). A celebration of one of history's naughtiest periods, when derision was an art form. -- adapted from jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 28, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Offensive speech
Insolent, rude and threatening gestures
Mockery
Outright violence
Disgusting habits
Repulsive bodies
The complete scoundrel.
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