The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth

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The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth

by active 1559-1577 John Awdelay, active 1567 Thomas Harman

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The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat'

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en

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Irma Špehar, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Release date

2012-02-12

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Contemporary EnglandRogues and vagabonds -- England -- History -- 16th century -- SourcesRogues and vagabonds -- England -- Early works to 1800Thieves

About the authors

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active 1559-1577 John Awdelay

A shadowy Tudor printer and pamphleteer, remembered for lively popular writing and one of the earliest printed looks at England’s vagabond underworld. Even the uncertainty around his life adds to the intrigue.

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active 1567 Thomas Harman

Best known for one of the earliest English studies of vagrancy, this 16th-century writer left a vivid, unsettling picture of life on the margins of Tudor society. His work mixes social observation, moral warning, and lively storytelling in a way that still feels strikingly direct.

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