Download or read book The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads written by A. V. Judges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elizabethan Underworld collects together sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues, and tricksters. For the most part the original authors were men of experience - watchmen, constables and those who drifted into the London underworld and learnt its tricks. A thorough introduction contributes a full historical background and outlines contemporary social contexts.