Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan ProseCosimo, Inc., 01.01.2008 - 328 Seiten British Shakespearean scholar JOHN DOVER WILSON (1881-1969) is best remembered for his explications of the Bard, particularly his acclaimed 1935 work What Happens in Hamlet. Here, however, he takes a rather more oblique approach to enlightening us to the world of Shakespeare, gathering together in this 1913 volume writings by contemporaries of the playwright's-some famous, some not-that illuminate the artistic society and ordinary life of Elizabethan England. Discover what the firsthand observers of the day thought about: [ English snobbery [ country sports [ festivals and revelry [ superstition, ghosts, and astrology [ parenting and children [ impressions of London [ the plague [ playhouses and bear-gardens [ the actor and his craft [ house and home [ rogues and vagabonds [ and much, much more |
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... laid in Italy or ancient Rome . This book , therefore , is intended as a commentary on the work as well as the life of Shakespeare . The section on roads , for example , has a direct bearing upon the escapades of Falstaff , viii PREFACE.
... laid in Italy or ancient Rome . This book , therefore , is intended as a commentary on the work as well as the life of Shakespeare . The section on roads , for example , has a direct bearing upon the escapades of Falstaff , viii PREFACE.
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... Falstaff , the passage on " witches in Scotland " throws an in- teresting and , I believe , a new light upon the weird sisters in Macbeth , Autolycus is the hero of the chapter on rogues , and so on . Partly in order to increase the ...
... Falstaff , the passage on " witches in Scotland " throws an in- teresting and , I believe , a new light upon the weird sisters in Macbeth , Autolycus is the hero of the chapter on rogues , and so on . Partly in order to increase the ...
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Inhalt
1 | |
10 | |
22 | |
29 | |
40 | |
LONDON | 75 |
BOOKS AND AUTHORS | 140 |
THE THEATRE | 154 |
THE AUDIENCE | 166 |
THE ACTOR AND HIS CRAFT | 172 |
CHAPTER IX | 208 |
10 | 235 |
THE | 251 |
16 | 254 |
of the Revenge discovery colonization travellers tales | 274 |
233 | 291 |
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Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose John Dover Wilson Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1913 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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