Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined...
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Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men. Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Gendered Geographies of Vice; Part I: Redefining Urban Masculinity: Taverns, Universities, and Gaming Houses; 1 Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play; 2 University of Vice: Drink, Gentility, and Masculinity in Oxford, Cambridge, and London; 3 The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London; Part II: Sexualizing the City: Cathedrals, Brothels, and Barbershops; 4 Carnal Geographies: Mocking and Mapping the Religious Body
5 "To what bawdy house doth your Maister belong?": Barbers, Bawds, and Vice in the Early Modern London BarbershopPart III: Remapping Misconduct: Sewers, Shops, and Streets; 6 Coriolanus and the "rank-scented meinie": Smelling Rank in Early Modern London; 7 Vicious Objects: Staging False Wares; 8 City of Angels: Theatrical Vice and The Devil is an Ass; Afterword: A Question of Morality; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z