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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... serves it in the office of a wall , Or as a moat defensive to a house , Against the envy of less happier lands , This blessed plot , this earth , this realm , this England .... Richard II . , II . i . 40—50 England The air of England is ...
... serves it in the office of a wall , Or as a moat defensive to a house , Against the envy of less happier lands , This blessed plot , this earth , this realm , this England .... Richard II . , II . i . 40—50 England The air of England is ...
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... served plentifully and at a good rate with French wines , as for that the hills most fit to bear grapes yield more commodity by feeding of sheep and cattle . Caesar writes in his Commentaries , that Britanny yields white lead within ...
... served plentifully and at a good rate with French wines , as for that the hills most fit to bear grapes yield more commodity by feeding of sheep and cattle . Caesar writes in his Commentaries , that Britanny yields white lead within ...
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... serves England , but also served the English army in the civil wars of Ireland , at which time they also exported great quantity thereof into foreign parts , and by God's mercy England scarce once in ten years needs supply of foreign ...
... serves England , but also served the English army in the civil wars of Ireland , at which time they also exported great quantity thereof into foreign parts , and by God's mercy England scarce once in ten years needs supply of foreign ...
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... of some substance to bear the charges . But these citizens and burgesses be to serve the commonwealth in their cities and boroughs , or in corporate towns where they dwell . Generally in the shires they be of none. 5 BIRTH AND RANK.
... of some substance to bear the charges . But these citizens and burgesses be to serve the commonwealth in their cities and boroughs , or in corporate towns where they dwell . Generally in the shires they be of none. 5 BIRTH AND RANK.
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... serve in it than all the rest : as shall appear hereafter . I call him a yeoman whom our laws do call legalem hominem , a word familiar in writs and inquests , which is a freeman born English , and may dispend of his own free land in ...
... serve in it than all the rest : as shall appear hereafter . I call him a yeoman whom our laws do call legalem hominem , a word familiar in writs and inquests , which is a freeman born English , and may dispend of his own free land in ...
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