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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... persons . Wherefore generally to speak of the commonwealth , or policy of England , it is governed , administered , and manured by three sorts of persons , the Prince , Monarch , and head governor , which is called the King , or if the ...
... persons . Wherefore generally to speak of the commonwealth , or policy of England , it is governed , administered , and manured by three sorts of persons , the Prince , Monarch , and head governor , which is called the King , or if the ...
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... person . Then , every one of these his men , he investeth with his liveries of green , yellow , or some other light wanton colour ; and as though they were not ( bawdy ) gaudy enough I should say , they bedeck themselves with scarfs ...
... person . Then , every one of these his men , he investeth with his liveries of green , yellow , or some other light wanton colour ; and as though they were not ( bawdy ) gaudy enough I should say , they bedeck themselves with scarfs ...
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... persons following to be notorious witches , and caused them forthwith to be apprehended , one after another , viz . Agnes Sampson , the eldest witch of them all , dwelling in Haddington ; Agnes Tompson of Edinburgh ; Doctor Fian alias ...
... persons following to be notorious witches , and caused them forthwith to be apprehended , one after another , viz . Agnes Sampson , the eldest witch of them all , dwelling in Haddington ; Agnes Tompson of Edinburgh ; Doctor Fian alias ...
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... person cannot live . Many other ways have I to fright the simple , but the understanding man I cannot move to fear , because he knows I have no power to do hurt . My nightly business I have told , To play these tricks I use of old ...
... person cannot live . Many other ways have I to fright the simple , but the understanding man I cannot move to fear , because he knows I have no power to do hurt . My nightly business I have told , To play these tricks I use of old ...
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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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance amongst apparel attire beasts better body called carbonadoed chamber comedy command common commonly court dance devil dice dinner dish divers doth drink Duke of Würtemberg England English eyes Falstaff fashion fear fellow FYNES MORYSON gentlemen GERVASE MARKHAM give hand hast hath head Henry IV honest honour horse keep King labour land learning live London look Lord Majesty manner master means meat Merchant of Venice merry Midsummer Night's Dream morning never NICHOLAS BRETON night persons PHILIP STUBBES play players poor Queen quoth Robin rogues saith scholars servants shew shillings ships sometimes sort speak STEPHEN GOSSON strange sundry tavern theatre thee thereof things THOMAS DEKKER THOMAS NASHE thou trenchers unto wherein wine withal words worthy young