{"product_id":"rogues-vagabonds-and-sturdy-beggars","title":"Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eManifest Detection of Dice Play\u003c\/i\u003e; Awdeley's \u003ci\u003eFraternity of Vagabonds\u003c\/i\u003e; Harman's \u003ci\u003eCaveat for Common Cursitors Vulgarly Called Vagabonds\u003c\/i\u003e; Greene's \u003ci\u003eNotable Discovery of Cozenage\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Book's Messenger\u003c\/i\u003e; Dekker's \u003ci\u003eLantern and Candle-light\u003c\/i\u003e; and Rid's \u003ci\u003eArt of Juggling\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55324968780120,"sku":"9780870237188","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780870237188.jpg?v=1778568354","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rogues-vagabonds-and-sturdy-beggars","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}