Rogues, vagabonds, & sturdy beggars
Subtitle: a new gallery of Tudor and early Stuart rogue literature exposing the lives, times, and cozening tricks of the Elizabethan underworld
By: edited, with notes, from quartos of the first editions by Arthur F. Kinney ; illustrations by John Lawrence.
Contributors: Kinney, Arthur F., 1933-
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.; Rogues and vagabonds -- Literary collections.; Beggars -- Literary collections.; Street literature -- England -- London.; England -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800.; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Barre, Mass. : Imprint Society, c1973.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A manifest detection of diceplay (1552) / Gilbert Walker; title: The fraternity of vagabonds (1561) / John Awdeley; title: A caveat for common cursitors vulgarly called vagabonds (1566) / Thomas Harman; title: A notable discovery of cozenage (1591) / Robert Greene; title: The black book's messenger (1592) / Robert Greene; title: Lantern and candle-light (1608) / Thomas Dekker; title: The art of juggling (1612) / Samuel Rid; title: Textual commentaries and notes; title: An Elizabethan glossary.