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Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds by Terry Deary (Hardcover, 2014)

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From the author of HORRIBLE HISTORIES comes the third volume in Terry Deary's gritty and humorous history series for adults. The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects... Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings, galleons and guns. Explorers set sail for new worlds, risking everything to bring back slaves, gold and the priceless potato. Elizabeth lined her coffers while her subjects lived in squalor with hunger, violence and misery as bedfellows. Shakespeare shone and yet the beggars and thieves, the doxies and bawdy baskets, kinchins and fraters scraped and cheated to survive in the shadows. These were dangerous days. If you survived the villains, and the diseases didn't get you, then the lawmen might. Pick the wrong religion and the scaffold or stake awaited you. The toothless, red-wigged queen sparkled in her jewelled dresses, but the Golden Age was only the surface of the coin. The rest was base metal. Once again, what we think we know about our history is revealed to be a mish-mash of misconceptions, glory-hogging and downright untruths as Terry Deary explodes the myths that permeate our understanding of the past - with a healthy dash of pitch-black humour.

Title_Author
Terry Deary
Book Title
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds
Author
Terry Deary
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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