Product Description
On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era. From sounding the hue and cry to alert a village to danger to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing—the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious.
Reviews/Praise
"Listeners benefit from [Heather Wilds's] pleasant, even voice and the knowledge that in the 1500s archery practice after church on Sunday was considered a man's patriotic duty." —AudioFile
"Both [Heather Wilds'] narration and the book are highly recommended." —Sound Commentary
"If the past is a foreign country, we're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman."—Wall Street Journal