Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England

by Bryan Reynolds

In this book Bryan Reynolds argues that early modern England experienced a sociocultural phenomenon, unprecedented in English history, which has been largely overlooked by historians and critics. Beginning in the 1520s, a distinct criminal culture of beggars, vagabonds, confidence tricksters, prostitutes, and gypsies emerged and flourished. This community defined itself through its criminal conduct and dissident thought and was, in turn, officially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801868084
• ISBN13: 9780801868085
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher