Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars: New Gallery of Tudor and...
Kinney, Arthur F. Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars: New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. 318 pp, illustrations. Softcover. Fine. Internally clean. $20. * This anthology compiles primary Renaissance texts that document the underworld of early modern England, providing valuable insight into the history of vagrancy law and social policing. Kinney structures the volume around seminal pieces of rogue literature by authors such as John Awdeley, Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker. The narrative exposes the contemporary legal anxieties surrounding the masterless poor, the evolution of the Tudor Poor Laws, and the operational mechanics of early municipal justice. The compiled pamphlets are supplemented by extensive critical annotations, historical introductions, and reproductions of Elizabethan woodcuts.
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Book number 87040