How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England - Ruth Goodman - Music - HIGHBRIDGE AUDIO - 9781665132404 - February 12, 2019
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England

Ruth Goodman

How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England

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.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Released February 12, 2019
ISBN13 9781665132404
Label HIGHBRIDGE AUDIO
Dimensions 150 g   (Weight (estimated))

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