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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... thought , temper , manners and activities of the period of Shakespeare , which is the theme of the first two volumes , are exemplified in selections from contem- porary poetry and prose . The former illustrates the literary interests ...
... thought , temper , manners and activities of the period of Shakespeare , which is the theme of the first two volumes , are exemplified in selections from contem- porary poetry and prose . The former illustrates the literary interests ...
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... thought and phrase resemble those of his contem- poraries . Such being the general aim of this volume , there has been no attempt to make it an anthology of the best Elizabethan prose . It contains no Hooker and very little Bacon , but ...
... thought and phrase resemble those of his contem- poraries . Such being the general aim of this volume , there has been no attempt to make it an anthology of the best Elizabethan prose . It contains no Hooker and very little Bacon , but ...
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... thought a good commonwealth's man . And therefore he preserves a chandler's treasure of bacon , links and puddings in the chimney corner . He is quickly and contentedly put into the fashion , if his clothes be made against Whitsuntide ...
... thought a good commonwealth's man . And therefore he preserves a chandler's treasure of bacon , links and puddings in the chimney corner . He is quickly and contentedly put into the fashion , if his clothes be made against Whitsuntide ...
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... thoughts and prayers , but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy , in that they are not palled with ensuing idle ... thought the most innocent because he is least public : and certainly I cannot well resolve you whether his sheep or ...
... thoughts and prayers , but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy , in that they are not palled with ensuing idle ... thought the most innocent because he is least public : and certainly I cannot well resolve you whether his sheep or ...
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... thoughts and passions : neither hath he any affection of so wild a nature , but he can bring it into good order , with an easy whistle . The worst temptation of his idleness teaches him no further mischief , than to love entirely some ...
... thoughts and passions : neither hath he any affection of so wild a nature , but he can bring it into good order , with an easy whistle . The worst temptation of his idleness teaches him no further mischief , than to love entirely some ...
Contents
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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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