How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England : : a Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
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"First published in Great Britain under the title How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain"--title page verso.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781631495113
1631495119
SUBJECTS
Etiquette -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.