Samuel Rid

Summary

Samuel Rid, known by the nom de plume S. R., was the author of The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine (1612), an apparent sequel to Martin Markall, Beadle of the Bridewell (1608 or 1610), which, although sometimes attributed to Samuel Rowlands, Rid is also likely to have authored.[1][2] Martin Markall recounts a history of rogues and Gypsies in England,[3] while the second book describes the legerdemain practiced by those two loosely aligned groups.[4]

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References edit

  1. ^ Mayall, David (9 October 2003). Gypsy Identities 1500-2000: From Egipcyans and Moon-men to the Ethnic Romany. Routledge. p. 69. ISBN 9781857289602.
  2. ^ Reynolds, Bryan (1 April 2003). Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (Google eBook). JHU Press. p. unnumbered.
  3. ^ Aydelotte, Frank (2013). Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds (5th ed.). Routledge. p. unnumbered.
  4. ^ "Gypsies in England". Notes and Queries. Eleventh (287). London: George Bell: 326. 28 April 1855.

External links edit

  • Works by Samuel Rid at Project Gutenberg
  • Kinney, Arthur F. (1973). Rogues, Vagabonds, & Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature Exposing the Lives, Times, and Cozening Tricks of the Elizabethan Underworld (Google eBook). University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9780870237188. This book contains a version of The Art of Juggling with modern spelling beginning on page 261