How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan En..., Ruth Goodman
How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan En..., Ruth Goodman
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England
A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

Author: Ruth Goodman

Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/12/2019


Synopsis

Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting "thee," to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul. Mischievous 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). Bringing her signature "exhilarating and contagious" enthusiasm (Boston Globe), this is a celebration of one of history's naughtiest periods, when derision was an art form.

About Ruth Goodman

Ruth Goodman is the author of multiple books on English domestic history, among them How to Be a Victorian and How to Be a Tudor. An historian of British life, she has presented a number of BBC television series, including Tudor Monastery Farm. She lives in England.


Reviews

I love Ruth Goodman for her dedication to the minutiae of daily life in history, and this book showcases that. She gives details on how people swore, fought, and roamed in gangs, and also how they went to the bathroom, dealt with their periods, and kept clean. Her appreciation for the past is always......more