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    How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
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    How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain

    Written by Ruth Goodman

    Narrated by Ruth Goodman

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    About this audiobook

    INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE Q&A WITH THE AUTHOR, RUTH GOODMAN.

    Historian and popular BBC TV presenter Ruth Goodman, author of How to Be a Tudor, offers up a history of Renaissance Britain - the offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - with practical tips on just how to horrify the Tudor neighbours.

    From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about what upset people, but also what mattered to them, how their society functioned and what kind of world they lived in.

    In this brilliantly nitty-gritty exploration of real life in the Tudor and Stuart age, you will discover:

    • how to choose the perfect insult, whether it be draggletail, varlet, flap, saucy fellow, strumpet, ninny-hammer or stinkard
    • why quoting Shakespeare was very poor form
    • the politics behind men kissing each other on the lips
    • why flashing the inside of your hat could repulse someone
    • the best way to mock accents, preachers, soldiers and pretty much everything else besides

    Ruth Goodman draws upon advice books and manuals, court cases and sermons, drama and imagery to outline bad behaviour from the gauche to the galling, the subtle to the outrageous. It is a celebration of drunkards, scolds, harridans and cross dressers in a time when calling a man a fool could get someone killed, and cursing wasn't just rude, it worked!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael O'Mara Books
    Release dateApr 5, 2018
    ISBN9781789290066
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    • 5/5
      Great book and really engaging as Ruth Goodman generally is, its nice to have an audio book that isn't monotone and I can easily sit and listen to every word, rather than zone out which is what tends to happen.

      The content in the book does not disappoint and its great how much you can relate to the scenarios of the time or put yourself In their shoes to say "I'd do that"

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    • 5/5
      Witty, fascinating and helpful to advance your cursing repertoire. I loved it.
    • 5/5
      Funny romp through a lurid and underwritten period of history Nice narration.