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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... majesty , this seat of Mars , This other Eden , demi - paradise , This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world , This precious stone set in the silver sea ...
... majesty , this seat of Mars , This other Eden , demi - paradise , This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world , This precious stone set in the silver sea ...
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... Majesty ; God send peace , and fair weather : so that one may glean harvest out of him to be his time of happiness : but the tithe - sheaf goes against his conscience ; for he had rather spend the value upon his reapers and ploughmen ...
... Majesty ; God send peace , and fair weather : so that one may glean harvest out of him to be his time of happiness : but the tithe - sheaf goes against his conscience ; for he had rather spend the value upon his reapers and ploughmen ...
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... majesty , and to guard his noble 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 ...
... majesty , and to guard his noble 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 ...
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... Majesty and his Council , and being examined of the meetings and detestable dealings of those witches , she confessed , that upon the night of All - hallow Even last , she was accom- panied , as well with the persons aforesaid , as also ...
... Majesty and his Council , and being examined of the meetings and detestable dealings of those witches , she confessed , that upon the night of All - hallow Even last , she was accom- panied , as well with the persons aforesaid , as also ...
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... Majesty sundry things , which were so miraculous and strange , as that his Majesty said ' they were all extreme liars ' ; whereat she answered , she would not wish his Majesty to suppose her words to be false , but rather to believe ...
... Majesty sundry things , which were so miraculous and strange , as that his Majesty said ' they were all extreme liars ' ; whereat she answered , she would not wish his Majesty to suppose her words to be false , but rather to believe ...
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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