The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads
Author: A. V. Judges
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 627
ISBN-13: 1136483608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Elizabethan Underworld collects together sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues, and tricksters. For the most part the original authors were men of experience - watchmen, constables and those who drifted into the London underworld and learnt its tricks. A thorough introduction contributes a full historical background and outlines contemporary social contexts.