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

Goodman, Ruth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1631495119 ISBN 13 : 9781631495113

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ruth Goodman is the author of multiple books including How to Be a Victorian. An historian of British life, she has presented a number of BBC television series, including Tudor Monastery Farm. She lives in the United Kingdom.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1631495119
• ISBN 13: 9781631495113
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible