Literature of Roguery Volume 1

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...from the pen of Thomas Kyd, author of the much bemocked "Spanish Tragedy." The "Two Most Unnatural and Bloodie Murthers" (1605) affords the foundation of "A Yorkshire Tragedy," which, like "Arden of Feversham," has been attributed to Shakespeare; and many other plays1 of the type have similar sources. Even in the eighteenth century George Lillo went back to a criminal pamphlet, "Newes from Perin," and a ballad of 1618 on the "Murder at Bohelland Farm near Penryn in Cornwall," for the matter of his "Fatal Curiosity" (1736), while his more famous bourgeois drama, "George Barnwell, or the London Merchant" (1731), revived a ballad in Percy's "Reliques" based upon another actual crime. Less tragic, and touched even with humor, was Thomas Lodge's "Life and Death of William Longbeard"(1593), where this "craftie citizen " is no hero of the people, but a subtle rogue, "held for a second God among the poore." A courtier, who vowed any hair in his own beard was a better gentleman than William, found repayment by being shaved close, head and face, with witty William "pleasantlie gibing at him." The rogue persuaded a merchant's daughter, "the louelie Mawdelin," to be his "lemmon," and wooed her poetically; but, on discovering her infidelity, he slew by stealth his rival, making it appear that the latter had killed himself. William's mind was planted on ambition. "At a beck, coblers, tinkers, tailors, and all sortes of the hare brainde multitude attended him." After his last great battle with the bailiffs in Bow Church he made confession of his rogueries, and Lodge concludes: "Let this example serue to withdra...

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