English
St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Rogues and Early Modern English
Culture
Publisher: Michigan UP
Ann Arbor, MI
2004, 400 pages
This book collects essays about the English Renaissance
equivalents of today’s “true-crime” bestsellers: pamphlets, poems,
plays, and historical records that purport to tell the scandalous
truth about the culture of vagrants, criminals, and prostitutes
hovering on the margins of English life.
“Rogues and Early Modern English Culture is an up-to-date and
suggestive collection on a subject that all scholars of the early
modern period have encountered but few have studied in the range
and depth represented here.”
—Lawrence Manley, Yale University