TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goodman,Ruth
TI  - How to behave badly in Elizabethan England: a guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves, and braggarts 
SN  - 9781631495113
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Etiquette
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - "First published in Great Britain under the title How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain"--title page verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Offensive speech -- Insolent, rude and threatening gestures -- Mockery -- Outright violence -- Disgusting habits -- Repulsive bodies -- The complete scoundrel
N2  - 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
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