Rogues, Vagabonds, & Sturdy Beggars
Rogues, Vagabonds, & Sturdy Beggars

Author: Arthur F. Kinney

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870237188

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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.

Rogues and Early Modern English Culture
Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

Author: Craig Dionne

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2004-04-07

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0472113747

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A definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue

Elizabethan England
Elizabethan England

Author: William Harrison

Publisher:

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1406857173

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Compiled from material taken from Harrison's "Description of England" which was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (London 1577).

Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature
Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature

Author: Linda Woodbridge

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780252026331

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Woodbridge shows that the prevailing image of the vagrant poor in Renaissance England--sturdy, comical, resourceful rogues who were adept at living on the fringes of society--was essentially a literary fabrication pressed into the service of specific social and political agendas.

The Elizabethan Underworld
The Elizabethan Underworld

Author: Gāmini Salgādo

Publisher: Sutton Pub Limited

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780750943147

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The complex network of beggars and thieves, vagabonds and rogues that inhabited the colourful underworld society of London's taverns, brothels and gambling dens is what the author investigates. The book contains sixty contemporary illustrations from manuscripts and pamphlets, bringing to life this sector of Elizabethan society.

From Data to Evidence in English Language Research
From Data to Evidence in English Language Research

Author: Carla Suhr

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-07

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9004390650

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From Data to Evidence in English Language Research draws on diverse digital data sources alongside more traditional linguistic corpora to offer new insights into the ways in which they can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics. This is achieved, for example, by increasing data size, adding multi-layered contextual analyses, applying methods from adjacent fields, and adapting existing data sets to new uses. Making innovative contributions to digital linguistics, the chapters in the volume apply a combination of methods to the increasing amount of digital data available to researchers to show how this data – both established and newly available - can be utilized, enriched and rethought to provide new evidence for developments in the English language.