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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... coming on , leaving their wits with their wives : and then give them great meals of beef and iron and steel , they will eat like wolves and fight like devils . Henry V. , III vii . 154-168 The English are grave like the Germans , lovers ...
... coming on , leaving their wits with their wives : and then give them great meals of beef and iron and steel , they will eat like wolves and fight like devils . Henry V. , III vii . 154-168 The English are grave like the Germans , lovers ...
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... coming into the presence , where he becomes troublesome with the ill managing of his rapier , and the wearing of his girdle of one fashion and the hanger of another . By this time he hath learned to kiss his hand , and make a leg both ...
... coming into the presence , where he becomes troublesome with the ill managing of his rapier , and the wearing of his girdle of one fashion and the hanger of another . By this time he hath learned to kiss his hand , and make a leg both ...
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... coming abroad again , the old cock ran presently upon him to have made him run away as he was wont to do before . But the young cock turning again , and they falling to a new fight , very sharp and eager on both sides , at last the old ...
... coming abroad again , the old cock ran presently upon him to have made him run away as he was wont to do before . But the young cock turning again , and they falling to a new fight , very sharp and eager on both sides , at last the old ...
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... coming , in the habit or likeness of a man , and seeing that they tarried over long , he at their coming enjoined them all to a penance , which was , that they should kiss his buttocks , in sign of duty to him ; which being put over the ...
... coming , in the habit or likeness of a man , and seeing that they tarried over long , he at their coming enjoined them all to a penance , which was , that they should kiss his buttocks , in sign of duty to him ; which being put over the ...
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... coming from the town of Brunt Island to the town of Leith , wherein was sundry jewels and rich gifts , which should have been presented to the now Queen of Scotland , at her Majesty's coming to Leith . Again , it is con- fessed , that ...
... coming from the town of Brunt Island to the town of Leith , wherein was sundry jewels and rich gifts , which should have been presented to the now Queen of Scotland , at her Majesty's coming to Leith . Again , it is con- fessed , that ...
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 |
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