The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads

The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads
Author: A. V. Judges
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 627
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136483608

The Elizabethan Underworld collects together sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues, and tricksters. For the most part the original authors were men of experience - watchmen, constables and those who drifted into the London underworld and learnt its tricks. A thorough introduction contributes a full historical background and outlines contemporary social contexts.