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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... dish or device , which she wants . She will not go to church , because she disdains to mix herself with base company , and cannot have her close pew by herself . She disdains to wear that everyone wears , or hear that preacher which ...
... dish or device , which she wants . She will not go to church , because she disdains to mix herself with base company , and cannot have her close pew by herself . She disdains to wear that everyone wears , or hear that preacher which ...
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... dish . The Indian commodities pay the merchant's adventure : and Barbary sugar puts honey out of countenance . The holy feast is kept for the faithful , and a known Jew hath no place among Christians . The earth now begins to paint her ...
... dish . The Indian commodities pay the merchant's adventure : and Barbary sugar puts honey out of countenance . The holy feast is kept for the faithful , and a known Jew hath no place among Christians . The earth now begins to paint her ...
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... dishes , or doing something else which she hath left undone : her I pinch about the arms , for not laying her arms to her labour . Some I find in their bed snorting and sleeping , and their houses lying as clean as a nasty dog's kennel ...
... dishes , or doing something else which she hath left undone : her I pinch about the arms , for not laying her arms to her labour . Some I find in their bed snorting and sleeping , and their houses lying as clean as a nasty dog's kennel ...
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Contents
1 | |
10 | |
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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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