The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads : Previously published 1930 and 1965

ISBN-13: 9780415286763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 636 str.

Various; A. V. Judges

Opis

This volume collates sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues and tricksters.

Spis treści

Introduction; The Highway to the Spital-house (1535-6); A Manifest Detection of Dice-play (1552) GILBERT WALKER (?); The Fraternity of Vagabonds* (1561); A Caveat for Common Cursitors (1566); A Notable Discovery of Cozenage (1591); The Second Part of Cony-catching (1591); The Third Part of Cony-catching (1592); A Disputation between a He-cony-catcher and a She-cony catcher (1592); The Black Book's Messenger (1592); The Black Dog of Newgate (c- 1596); Luke Hutton's Lamentation (1596); The Testament of Laurence Lucifer; The Bellman of London*; Lantern and Candlelight* (1608); O per se O (1612); Martin Markall, Beadle of Bridewell (1610); The Counter's Commonwealth (1617); The Song of a Constable (1626)

O autorze

A. V. Judges