Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan ProseBritish 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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... give coherence and prominence to what seem to be its significant features . Thus , the thought , temper , manners ... gives a picture of the Elizabethan Englishman , painted by himself , in pursuit of his business , sport or roguery ...
... give coherence and prominence to what seem to be its significant features . Thus , the thought , temper , manners ... gives a picture of the Elizabethan Englishman , painted by himself , in pursuit of his business , sport or roguery ...
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... give our fancy the entry to his house , his garden and his orchard , and even allow us to picture him at his table or in his bed- chamber . Moreover since this was the period when Shakespeare's dramatic genius played around the land ...
... give our fancy the entry to his house , his garden and his orchard , and even allow us to picture him at his table or in his bed- chamber . Moreover since this was the period when Shakespeare's dramatic genius played around the land ...
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... give them great meals of beef and iron and steel , they will eat like wolves and fight like devils . Henry V. , III vii . 154-168 The English are grave like the Germans , lovers of shew ; followed wherever they go by whole troops of ...
... give them great meals of beef and iron and steel , they will eat like wolves and fight like devils . Henry V. , III vii . 154-168 The English are grave like the Germans , lovers of shew ; followed wherever they go by whole troops of ...
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... give to esquires and other gentlemen , and shall be taken for a gentleman : for true it is with us as is said , Tanti eris aliis quanti tibi feceris . And ( if need be ) a king of heralds shall also give him for money arms , newly made ...
... give to esquires and other gentlemen , and shall be taken for a gentleman : for true it is with us as is said , Tanti eris aliis quanti tibi feceris . And ( if need be ) a king of heralds shall also give him for money arms , newly made ...
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... give their consent or dissent in the name of the city or borough for which they be appointed . Of Yeomen Those whom we call yeomen next unto the nobility , knights and squires , have the greatest charge and doings in the commonwealth ...
... give their consent or dissent in the name of the city or borough for which they be appointed . Of Yeomen Those whom we call yeomen next unto the nobility , knights and squires , have the greatest charge and doings in the commonwealth ...
Contents
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10 | |
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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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