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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... labour , I fear I cannot altogether have avoided the dangers . Free changes also have been made in the punctuation where sense or the modern eye seemed to require them . The glossary at the end ought to explain most of the names ...
... labour , I fear I cannot altogether have avoided the dangers . Free changes also have been made in the punctuation where sense or the modern eye seemed to require them . The glossary at the end ought to explain most of the names ...
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... Labour's Lost , Merry Wives of Windsor ) CHILD AND PARENT 49 § 2 . Two views of childhood , parents and children THE GRAMMAr - School 52 An interesting parallel , the school day , punishment , country schoolmasters §3 . THE UNIVERSITY ...
... Labour's Lost , Merry Wives of Windsor ) CHILD AND PARENT 49 § 2 . Two views of childhood , parents and children THE GRAMMAr - School 52 An interesting parallel , the school day , punishment , country schoolmasters §3 . THE UNIVERSITY ...
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... Labour's Lost , Much Ado About Nothing , Nothing , Hamlet , Historical Plays ) § 1 . QUEEN ELIZABETH AT GREENWICH 191 § 2 . THE COURTIER • • 194 The ideal , the other side of the picture § 3 . MASQUES AT COURT • • 198 § 4 . THE DEATH OF ...
... Labour's Lost , Much Ado About Nothing , Nothing , Hamlet , Historical Plays ) § 1 . QUEEN ELIZABETH AT GREENWICH 191 § 2 . THE COURTIER • • 194 The ideal , the other side of the picture § 3 . MASQUES AT COURT • • 198 § 4 . THE DEATH OF ...
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... labour in separating or trying it . Two cities yield medicinal baths , namely Buxton and Bath , and the waters of Bath especially have great virtue in many diseases . England abounds with sea - coals upon the sea coast , and with pit ...
... labour in separating or trying it . Two cities yield medicinal baths , namely Buxton and Bath , and the waters of Bath especially have great virtue in many diseases . England abounds with sea - coals upon the sea coast , and with pit ...
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... labour not to destroy the crows consuming great quantity of corn , because they feed on worms and other things hurting the corn . And in great cities it is forbidden to kill kites and ravens , because they devour the filth of the ...
... labour not to destroy the crows consuming great quantity of corn , because they feed on worms and other things hurting the corn . And in great cities it is forbidden to kill kites and ravens , because they devour the filth of the ...
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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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