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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... Robin Hood , the Lord of Misrule SUPERSTITION • • ( Midsummer Night's Dream , Julius Caesar , Macbeth , Hamlet , King Lear , The Tempest ) § I. THE NATURE OF SUPERSTITION • § 2 . GHOSTS AND SPIRITS Exorcism PAGE vii 10 10 16 22 29 • 29 ...
... Robin Hood , the Lord of Misrule SUPERSTITION • • ( Midsummer Night's Dream , Julius Caesar , Macbeth , Hamlet , King Lear , The Tempest ) § I. THE NATURE OF SUPERSTITION • § 2 . GHOSTS AND SPIRITS Exorcism PAGE vii 10 10 16 22 29 • 29 ...
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... , and the meeting of the friendly . NICHOLAS BRETON , Fantastickes 1626 Good - Friday It is now Good Friday , and 22 THE COUNTRYSIDE FESTIVAL CHAPTER III Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, May Day, Robin Hood, the Lord of Misrule.
... , and the meeting of the friendly . NICHOLAS BRETON , Fantastickes 1626 Good - Friday It is now Good Friday , and 22 THE COUNTRYSIDE FESTIVAL CHAPTER III Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, May Day, Robin Hood, the Lord of Misrule.
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... did at the dedication of their idols , whereof this is a perfect pattern , or rather the thing itself . PHILIP STUBBES , The Anatomie of Abuses 1583 ( 2nd ed . ) Robin Hood I came once myself to a place , 24 THE COUNTRYSIDE.
... did at the dedication of their idols , whereof this is a perfect pattern , or rather the thing itself . PHILIP STUBBES , The Anatomie of Abuses 1583 ( 2nd ed . ) Robin Hood I came once myself to a place , 24 THE COUNTRYSIDE.
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... Robin Hood's day . The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood . I pray you let them not . . " I was fain there to give place to Robin Hood ; I thought my rochet should have been regarded , though I were not , but it would not ...
... Robin Hood's day . The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood . I pray you let them not . . " I was fain there to give place to Robin Hood ; I thought my rochet should have been regarded , though I were not , but it would not ...
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... Robin Goodfellow : are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery ; Skim milk , and sometimes labour in ... Robin Good - fellow to dance King Oberon , seeing Robin Good - fellow do so many honest merry tricks , called him one ...
... Robin Goodfellow : are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery ; Skim milk , and sometimes labour in ... Robin Good - fellow to dance King Oberon , seeing Robin Good - fellow do so many honest merry tricks , called him one ...
Contents
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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