If your interest in English history, culture, and language isn't deterred by a good bit of bawdiness—and if you're curious to know more about how Elizabethans other than the queen and William Shakespeare lived—then you're ready to learn How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England. In this illuminating "guide for knaves, fools, harlots, cuckolds, drunkards, liars, thieves, and braggarts," historian Ruth Goodman guides readers into the barrooms, back alleys, and bedrooms of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England to examine how nonconformists prone to "bad behavior" reflected and influenced politics, linguistics, gender issues, even personal hygiene habits we still practice today. How fascinating!