Description
Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds
Language: English
Subjects for Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds:
Keywords
Rogue Pamphlets; pamphlets; False Dice; henry; Act III; viii; Elizabethan Rogues; false; Manifest Detection; dice; Young Man; edward; Notable Discouery; thomas; English Rogue; harman; Counterfeit Crank; literature; Barnard's Law; samuel; Town Clerk's Office; Vp; Wandering; Elizabethan Pamphlets; Thomas Cornwallis; Blacke Bookes Messenger; Cock Lorell; Rogue Life; Liber Vagatorum; Bee; Gamaliell Ratsey; Middlesex Sessions; Domestic State Papers; Rogue Literature; Vagrant Soldiers
Publication date: 10-1967
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 08-2014
Support: Print on demand
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First published in 1967. This volume has grown out of a study of a number of Elizabethan pamphlets dealing with rogues and vagabonds, the most important of which are the Conny-catching series of Robert Greene and the Catteat for CommmCursetors of Thomas Harman. 'Conny-catching' was an Elizabethan slang word for a particular method of cheating at cards, but it came to be used in a general sense for all kinds of tricks by which rogues and sharpers beguiled simple people of their money. The books are vivid and well written, and they picture an elaborately organized profession of roguery with a language of its own and a large number of well-defined. Methods and traditions.
