16th century pamphlets
bawdy humor in literature
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confidence games history
conmen and swindlers
cony-catching manuals
crime and punishment history
criminal archetypes
criminal exploits in literature
criminal folklore
cultural history of crime
early modern crime
early modern England
early modern popular culture
early modern rogues
early modern satire
Elizabethan literature
Elizabethan society
Elizabethan storytelling
Elizabethan street life
Elizabethan underworld characters
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historical deceit
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Shakespearean influences
sixteenth century England
social history of crime
social outsiders in literature
street crime narratives
street hustlers
street performers history
vagabond culture
Product details
- ISBN 9780870237188
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 154 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 1990
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and founding editor of English Literary Renaissance.
