title: Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature Exposing the Lives, Times, and Cozening Tricks of the Elizabethan Underworld
author: Arthur F. Kinney
description: "<i>Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars</i> collects significant rogue books and cony catching pamphlets. Given the renewed interest in such texts in recent years, their availability in a modern edition is a considerable boon to Renaissance scholarsespecially in an edition enhanced by Kinney's thorough and informative introduction."Steven Mullaney, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
zlib_text: KEY WRITINGS ON SUBCULTURES 
  1535–1727 
  Classics from the Underworld 
  
  Key Writings on Subcultures 1535–1727 
  Classics from the Underworld 
  Volume I 
  The Elizabethan Underworld: A Collection of Tudor and Early 
  Stuart Tracts and Ballads 
  Edited by A. V. Judges 
  Volume II 
  The English Rogue, Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, 
  A Witty Extravagant, Being a Complete History of the Most 
  Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes 
  By Richard Head and Francis Kirkman 
  Volume III 
  A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most 
  Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts & Cheats of 
  Both Sexes 
  By Captain Alexander Smith, Edited by Arthur L. Hayward 
  Volume IV 
  A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most 
  Notorious Pirates, From their First Rise and Settlement in the 
  Island of Providence to the Present Year 
  By Captain Charles Johnson, Edited by Arthur L. Hayward 
  Volume V 
  Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, who have been 
  Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highwa