The Gull's Hornbook

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The Gull's Hornbook is a satirical early 17th-century guidebook by Thomas Dekker that humorously instructs fashionable London "gulls" on how to behave in society.

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instanceOf book
conduct book
satirical work
approximatePublicationDate early 1600s
author Thomas Dekker NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin England
depicts London NERFINISHED
gulls (fashionable fops)
describes conduct in churches
conduct in streets and public spaces
conduct in theaters
genre humour
satire
hasHistoricalContext Jacobean London urban culture
hasPart chapters on behavior in public places
hasReception recognized as a key source on Jacobean manners
hasTheme performance of gentility
satire of social pretension
urban manners
hasTitleCharacterType gull (naive, fashion-obsessed man)
influencedBy Elizabethan city comedy
intendedAudience fashionable Londoners
urban readers
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Jacobean literature NERFINISHED
literaryStyle colloquial prose
rhetorical exaggeration
mainSubject London society
fashionable young men
manners and social behavior
modeOfAddress mock-instructional
narrativePerspective second person
originalLanguage English
parodies serious conduct manuals
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
timePeriodOfWork early 17th century
tone humorous
satirical
usedAsSourceFor studies of early modern London life
workExampleOf early modern English satire
workPeriod Renaissance literature

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Thomas Dekker notableWork The Gull's Hornbook