Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-174) and index.
Contents:
Coda: "Skillfull in their art": criminal biography and the renegade inheritance. 1 "Unquiet hotspurs": Stukeley, Vernon, and the renegade humour -- 2 "We are of the sea!": Masterless identity and transnational context in A Christian turned Turk -- 3 "Lend us your lament": Purser and Clinton on the scaffold -- 4 "Extravagant thoughts": the Sherley brothers and the future of renegade England -- Coda: "Skillfull in their art": criminal biography and the renegade inheritance.
Summary:
Examining tales of notorious figures in Renaissance England, Laurie Ellinghausen sheds new light on the construction of the early modern renegade and its depiction in English prose, poetry, and drama during a period of capitalist expansion.
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