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Cover of the book How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts by Ruth Goodman which has the title and subtitle in a white box down the middle and then the outside of it is all illustrations from artwork at the time demonstrating people fighting, using weapons, committing crimes and that sort of thing.

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Cover of the book How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts by Ruth Goodman which has the title and subtitle in a white box down the middle and then the outside of it is all illustrations from artwork at the time demonstrating people fighting, using weapons, committing crimes and that sort of thing.
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Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 06:32:52 JST Jessamyn
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Book 23: How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England. A sort of fun look at what sorts of things were considered rude or just beyond the pale and what other things were just not as big a deal back then as they are now. Goodman goes into topics like sex, drugs (well, alcohol) and fighting and looks at old documents, primarily court records and wills but also a few books published at the time, and talks about what "behaving badly" at that time, really looked like. I learned stuff.

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