The Elizabeth Underworld - Softcover

Salgado, Gamini

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750909765 ISBN 13: 9780750909761

Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

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 investigates. He describes those others who were part of the underground scene: strolling players and minstrels, witches, alchemists and astrologers. He also examines the measures taken against those who were seen to be in need of correction or reform. Illustrations taken from manuscripts and pamphlets of the era bring to life this sector of Elizabethan society.

About this title

About the Author:

Gamini Salgado was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and came to England to attend the University of Nottingham. He became an expert on D.H.Lawrence's poetry and on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. He was appointed to the Chair of English at Exeter University in 1977. He died in 1985.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0750909765
• ISBN 13: 9780750909761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240