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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... land- rogues and water - rogues which add so much that is splendid and picturesque to Elizabethan life , it seemed . proper to insert here chapters on vagabondage and seafaring . Finally the varied activities of the age are summarized ...
... land- rogues and water - rogues which add so much that is splendid and picturesque to Elizabethan life , it seemed . proper to insert here chapters on vagabondage and seafaring . Finally the varied activities of the age are summarized ...
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... land , and iron upon the sea coasts . No doubt England hath inexhaustible veins of both , and also of tin , and yields great quantity of brass , and of alum and iron , and abounds with quarries of freestone , and fountains of most pure ...
... land , and iron upon the sea coasts . No doubt England hath inexhaustible veins of both , and also of tin , and yields great quantity of brass , and of alum and iron , and abounds with quarries of freestone , and fountains of most pure ...
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... land , and hath more tame swans swimming in the rivers , than I did see in other part . It hath multitudes of hurtful birds , as crows , any ravens and kites , and they labour not to destroy the crows consuming great quantity of corn ...
... land , and hath more tame swans swimming in the rivers , than I did see in other part . It hath multitudes of hurtful birds , as crows , any ravens and kites , and they labour not to destroy the crows consuming great quantity of corn ...
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... land in yearly revenue to the sum of 40 / - sterling : this maketh ( if the just value were taken now to the proportion of monies ) £ 6 of our current money at this present . This sort of people confess themselves to be no gentle- men ...
... land in yearly revenue to the sum of 40 / - sterling : this maketh ( if the just value were taken now to the proportion of monies ) £ 6 of our current money at this present . This sort of people confess themselves to be no gentle- men ...
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... land , copyholders , and all artificers , as tailors , shoemakers , carpenters , brickmakers , masons , etc. These have no voice nor authority in our commonwealth , and no account is made of them but only to be ruled , not to rule other ...
... land , copyholders , and all artificers , as tailors , shoemakers , carpenters , brickmakers , masons , etc. These have no voice nor authority in our commonwealth , and no account is made of them but only to be ruled , not to rule other ...
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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