How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

by Ruth Goodman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631495119
• ISBN13: 9781631495113
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"