The Elizabethan age was one of unbounded vitality and exuberance.
Nowhere is the color and action of life more vividly revealed than
in the rogue books and cony-catching (confidence game) pamphlets of
the sixteenth century. This book presents seven of the age's
liveliest works: Walker's Manifest Detection of Dice Play;
Awdeley's Fraternity of Vagabonds; Harman's Caveat for Common
Cursitors Vulgarly Called Vagabonds; Greene's Notable Discovery of
Cozenage and Black Book's Messenger; Dekker's Lantern and
Candle-light; and Rid's Art of Juggling. From these pages spring
the denizens of the Elizabethan underworld: cutpurses, hookers,
palliards, jarkmen, doxies, counterfeit cranks, bawdy-baskets,
walking morts, and priggers of prancers.
In his introduction, Arthur F. Kinney discusses the significance
of these works as protonovels and their influence on such writers
as Shakespeare. He also explores the social, political, and
economic conditions of a time that spawned a community of renegades
who conned their way to fame, fortune, and, occasionally, the rope
at Tyburn.
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