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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England

A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England

Written by: Ruth Goodman
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
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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 reveals 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 listeners 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.

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The story telling and writing of this book is fantastic but the narration was very one note. I wish Ruth Goodman had read this book herself, she has an amazingly engaging way of speaking that would have put this book over the top!

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I like the other book by Ruth Goodman I have listened to but this one was really killed by a lackluster reader. I kept trying to persevere cause the topic was really fun but in the end I gave up...

interesting writer but uninspiring reader

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