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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... gentlemen for kind permission to use their text or illustrations ; to my friend Mr R. B. McKerrow for the extracts taken from his edition of Nashe , to Dr W. W. Greg for the contract on p . 161 from his Henslowe Papers and the letters ...
... gentlemen for kind permission to use their text or illustrations ; to my friend Mr R. B. McKerrow for the extracts taken from his edition of Nashe , to Dr W. W. Greg for the contract on p . 161 from his Henslowe Papers and the letters ...
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... gentlemen and lords have so many and large parks only reserved for the pleasure of hunting , or where all sorts of men allot so much ground about their houses for pleasure of gardens and orchards . The very grapes , especi- ally towards ...
... gentlemen and lords have so many and large parks only reserved for the pleasure of hunting , or where all sorts of men allot so much ground about their houses for pleasure of gardens and orchards . The very grapes , especi- ally towards ...
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... Gentlemen Ordinarily the king doth only make knights and create barons or higher degrees : for as for gentlemen , they be made good cheap in England . For whosoever studieth the laws of the realm , who studieth in the universities , who ...
... Gentlemen Ordinarily the king doth only make knights and create barons or higher degrees : for as for gentlemen , they be made good cheap in England . For whosoever studieth the laws of the realm , who studieth in the universities , who ...
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... gentlemen , and yet they have a certain pre - eminence and more estimation than labourers and artificers , and commonly live wealthily , keep good houses , and do their business , and travail to acquire riches . These be ( for the most ...
... gentlemen , and yet they have a certain pre - eminence and more estimation than labourers and artificers , and commonly live wealthily , keep good houses , and do their business , and travail to acquire riches . These be ( for the most ...
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... gentlemen .... Of the fourth sort of men which do not rule The fourth sort or class amongst us is of those which the old Romans called capite censii proletarii or operae , day labourers , poor husbandmen , yea merchants and retailers ...
... gentlemen .... Of the fourth sort of men which do not rule The fourth sort or class amongst us is of those which the old Romans called capite censii proletarii or operae , day labourers , poor husbandmen , yea merchants and retailers ...
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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