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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... 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 on pp . 92 and ...
... 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 on pp . 92 and ...
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... kind of creatures , namely hounds . GERVASE MARKHAM , Countrey Contentments 1611 Preparations for the chase Immediately after supper the huntsman should go to his master's chamber , and , if he serve a king , then let him go to the ...
... kind of creatures , namely hounds . GERVASE MARKHAM , Countrey Contentments 1611 Preparations for the chase Immediately after supper the huntsman should go to his master's chamber , and , if he serve a king , then let him go to the ...
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... kind , So flew'd , so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook - knee'd , and dew - lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit , but match'd in mouth like bells , Each under each . A ...
... kind , So flew'd , so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook - knee'd , and dew - lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit , but match'd in mouth like bells , Each under each . A ...
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... kind of fight , than a play or recreation ; a bloody and murdering practice , than a fellowly sport or pastime . For doth not every one lie in wait for his adversary , seeking to overthrow him and to pick him on his nose , though it be ...
... kind of fight , than a play or recreation ; a bloody and murdering practice , than a fellowly sport or pastime . For doth not every one lie in wait for his adversary , seeking to overthrow him and to pick him on his nose , though it be ...
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... kind . And I another . I myself have all the other ; * * * Though his bark cannot be lost , Yet it shall be tempest - tost . Macbeth , 1. iii . 8—25 [ It is well - known that Macbeth was written for the eye of King James . The following ...
... kind . And I another . I myself have all the other ; * * * Though his bark cannot be lost , Yet it shall be tempest - tost . Macbeth , 1. iii . 8—25 [ It is well - known that Macbeth was written for the eye of King James . The following ...
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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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