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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... keep good houses , and do their business , and travail to acquire riches . These be ( for the most part ) farmers unto gentlemen , which with grazing , frequenting of markets , and keeping servants not idle as the gentleman doth , but ...
... keep good houses , and do their business , and travail to acquire riches . These be ( for the most part ) farmers unto gentlemen , which with grazing , frequenting of markets , and keeping servants not idle as the gentleman doth , but ...
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... keeping company , conversing with their equals ( whom they term gossips ) and their neighbours , and making merry with them at child - births , christenings , churchings and funerals ; and all this with the permission and knowledge of ...
... keeping company , conversing with their equals ( whom they term gossips ) and their neighbours , and making merry with them at child - births , christenings , churchings and funerals ; and all this with the permission and knowledge of ...
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... , the hockey or seed cake , these he yearly keeps , yet holds them no relics of popery . He is not so inquisitive after news derived from the * i.e. as the Puritans did . privy closet , when the finding an aerie of hawks II COUNTRY - FOLK.
... , the hockey or seed cake , these he yearly keeps , yet holds them no relics of popery . He is not so inquisitive after news derived from the * i.e. as the Puritans did . privy closet , when the finding an aerie of hawks II COUNTRY - FOLK.
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... keeping him in delights and pleasures , drew him from his graver counsellors , hearing of sermons , and listening to good counsel and admonitions , that in the end they got him to lie down in a cradle upon the stage , where these 20 THE ...
... keeping him in delights and pleasures , drew him from his graver counsellors , hearing of sermons , and listening to good counsel and admonitions , that in the end they got him to lie down in a cradle upon the stage , where these 20 THE ...
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... keep them from seeing of spectacles of ill examples , and hearing of lascivious or scurrilous words ; for that their young memories are like fair writing - tables , wherein if the fair sentences or lessons of grace be written , they may ...
... keep them from seeing of spectacles of ill examples , and hearing of lascivious or scurrilous words ; for that their young memories are like fair writing - tables , wherein if the fair sentences or lessons of grace be written , they may ...
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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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