Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9780870237188
Category : Beggars
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Elizabethan age was one of unbounded vitality and exuberance; nowhere is the color and action of life more vividly revealed than in the rogue books and cony-catching (confidence game) pamphlets of the sixteenth century. This book presents seven of the age's liveliest works: Walker's Manifest Detection of Dice Play; Awdeley's Fraternity of Vagabonds; Harman's Caveat for Common Cursitors Vulgarly Called Vagabonds; Greene's Notable Discovery of Cozenage and Black Book's Messenger; Dekker's Lantern and Candle-light; and Rid's Art of Juggling. From these pages spring the denizens of the Elizabethan underworld: cutpurses, hookers, palliards, jarkmen, doxies, counterfeit cranks, bawdy-baskets, walking morts, and priggers of prancers. In his introduction, Arthur F. Kinney discusses the significance of these works as protonovels and their influence on such writers as Shakespeare. He also explores the social, political, and economic conditions of a time that spawned a community of renegades who conned their way to fame, fortune, and, occasionally, the rope at Tyburn.
Rogues, Vagabonds, & Sturdy Beggars
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9780870237188
Category : Beggars
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Elizabethan age was one of unbounded vitality and exuberance; nowhere is the color and action of life more vividly revealed than in the rogue books and cony-catching (confidence game) pamphlets of the sixteenth century. This book presents seven of the age's liveliest works: Walker's Manifest Detection of Dice Play; Awdeley's Fraternity of Vagabonds; Harman's Caveat for Common Cursitors Vulgarly Called Vagabonds; Greene's Notable Discovery of Cozenage and Black Book's Messenger; Dekker's Lantern and Candle-light; and Rid's Art of Juggling. From these pages spring the denizens of the Elizabethan underworld: cutpurses, hookers, palliards, jarkmen, doxies, counterfeit cranks, bawdy-baskets, walking morts, and priggers of prancers. In his introduction, Arthur F. Kinney discusses the significance of these works as protonovels and their influence on such writers as Shakespeare. He also explores the social, political, and economic conditions of a time that spawned a community of renegades who conned their way to fame, fortune, and, occasionally, the rope at Tyburn.
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9780870237188
Category : Beggars
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Elizabethan age was one of unbounded vitality and exuberance; nowhere is the color and action of life more vividly revealed than in the rogue books and cony-catching (confidence game) pamphlets of the sixteenth century. This book presents seven of the age's liveliest works: Walker's Manifest Detection of Dice Play; Awdeley's Fraternity of Vagabonds; Harman's Caveat for Common Cursitors Vulgarly Called Vagabonds; Greene's Notable Discovery of Cozenage and Black Book's Messenger; Dekker's Lantern and Candle-light; and Rid's Art of Juggling. From these pages spring the denizens of the Elizabethan underworld: cutpurses, hookers, palliards, jarkmen, doxies, counterfeit cranks, bawdy-baskets, walking morts, and priggers of prancers. In his introduction, Arthur F. Kinney discusses the significance of these works as protonovels and their influence on such writers as Shakespeare. He also explores the social, political, and economic conditions of a time that spawned a community of renegades who conned their way to fame, fortune, and, occasionally, the rope at Tyburn.
Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds
Author: Frank Aydelotte
Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press 1913.
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press 1913.
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Rogues and Vagabonds
Author: Lionel Rose
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415002752
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415002752
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Rogues and Vagabonds
Author: George R. Sims
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752429747
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Rogues and Vagabonds by George R. Sims
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752429747
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Rogues and Vagabonds by George R. Sims
Rogues and Early Modern English Culture
Author: Craig Dionne
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472113747
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
A definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472113747
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
A definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue
Air Vagabonds
Author: Anthony J. Vallone
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588344657
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Air Vagabonds is the story of the amazing, true (mis)adventures of a band of rogues piloting aircraft alone into exotic and deadly destinations. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the demand for light aircraft eclipsed anything seen before or since. This created the need for a small air force of pilots—ferry pilots—willing to fly thousands of planes to clients in every corner of the globe. Long-range solo flying is not for everyone, and it attracted a cast of eccentric, unforgettable mavericks who flew from one misadventure to the next, battling storms, desert winds, aircraft malfunctions, primitive navigational aids, loneliness, chemical imbalances, and dangerous Third World politics. Some carried on international scams and love affairs, some were lost at sea, some imprisoned by African despots. They’re all here, described with humor and high drama by one of their own, a survivor with phenomenal recall, a knack for distinguishing character from bluster, and a great ear for dialogue and aviation lore.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588344657
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Air Vagabonds is the story of the amazing, true (mis)adventures of a band of rogues piloting aircraft alone into exotic and deadly destinations. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the demand for light aircraft eclipsed anything seen before or since. This created the need for a small air force of pilots—ferry pilots—willing to fly thousands of planes to clients in every corner of the globe. Long-range solo flying is not for everyone, and it attracted a cast of eccentric, unforgettable mavericks who flew from one misadventure to the next, battling storms, desert winds, aircraft malfunctions, primitive navigational aids, loneliness, chemical imbalances, and dangerous Third World politics. Some carried on international scams and love affairs, some were lost at sea, some imprisoned by African despots. They’re all here, described with humor and high drama by one of their own, a survivor with phenomenal recall, a knack for distinguishing character from bluster, and a great ear for dialogue and aviation lore.
Rogues and Vagabonds
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Vagabond in Literature
Author: Arthur Compton-Rickett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Bibliographical notes": pages 206-[207] Foreword.--Introduction: The vagabond element in modern literature--I. William Hazlitt.--II. Thomas De Quincey.--III. George Borrow.--IV. Henry D. Thoreau.--V. Robert Louis Stevenson.--VI. Richard Jefferies.--VII. Walt Whitman.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Bibliographical notes": pages 206-[207] Foreword.--Introduction: The vagabond element in modern literature--I. William Hazlitt.--II. Thomas De Quincey.--III. George Borrow.--IV. Henry D. Thoreau.--V. Robert Louis Stevenson.--VI. Richard Jefferies.--VII. Walt Whitman.
A Set of Rogues
Author: Frank Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Elizabethan England
Author: William Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 1406857173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Compiled from material taken from Harrison's "Description of England" which was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (London 1577).
Publisher:
ISBN: 1406857173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Compiled from material taken from Harrison's "Description of England" which was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (London 1577).