How to behave badly in Elizabethan England : a guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves, and braggarts / Ruth Goodman.
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TextPublisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First American editionDescription: 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781631495113
- 1631495119
- How to behave badly in Renaissance Britain
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting "thee," to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul. Mischievous 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). Bringing her signature "exhilarating and contagious" enthusiasm (Boston Globe), this is a celebration of one of history's naughtiest periods, when derision was an art form.
"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.
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.