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The Elizabethan Underworld

Paperback • 1995 • English

The Elizabethan Underworld

By Gamini Salgado

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About the book

The Elizabethan world, so often recalled for its riotous love of life and bawdy sense of humor, was also a world of contrasts. The rich appeared enormously rich, indulging in extravagant luxuries, while the poor often languished in unthinkable squalor, turning to thievery and begging in order to survive. It is this complex network of beggars and thieves, vagabonds and rogues, that inhabited the colorful underworld society of London's taverns, brothels and gambling dens that Salgado here investig...Show more

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9780750909761

Published year

1995

Language

English

Original title

The Elizabethan Underworld

Format

Paperback

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