Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose

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Cosimo, Inc., Jan 1, 2008 - History - 328 pages
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
 

Contents

ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH
1
CHAPTER II
10
FESTIVAL
22
SUPERSTITION
29
FAIRYLand
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

PLAYHOUSES AND BEARGARDENS
160

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