Rogues, Vagabonds and Beggars: from Laws to Rogue Books and Canting

Rogues, Vagabonds and Beggars: from Laws to Rogue Books and Canting

This essay explores the Elizabethan underworld as described by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. In the backdrop of the laws introduced by Elizabeth I, this essay introduces the main criminal categories and characters living in late 16th-century London. These mysterious and sometimes charming characters...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cristina Vallaro
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universitas Studiorum 2022-12-01
Series:Open Journal of Humanities
Subjects:
elizabethan underworld
peddler’s french and canting
john awdeley’s the fraternity of vagabonds
thomas harman’s a caveat of common cursitors
vulgarly called vagabonds
robert greene’s a notable discovery of cozenage
thomas dekker's the belman of london
john awdeley
thomas harman
robert greene
english literature
english language
thoms dekker
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