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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... honest pastime , and thinks not the bones of the dead any thing bruised , or the worse for it , though the country lasses dance in the church- yard after evensong . Rock Monday , and the wake in summer , shrovings , the wakeful ketches ...
... honest pastime , and thinks not the bones of the dead any thing bruised , or the worse for it , though the country lasses dance in the church- yard after evensong . Rock Monday , and the wake in summer , shrovings , the wakeful ketches ...
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... honest man : and so , he thinks of no rising higher , but rising early in the morning ; and being up , he hath no end of motion , but wanders in his woods and pastures so continually , that when he sleeps , or sits , he wanders also ...
... honest man : and so , he thinks of no rising higher , but rising early in the morning ; and being up , he hath no end of motion , but wanders in his woods and pastures so continually , that when he sleeps , or sits , he wanders also ...
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... honest thoughts and prayers , but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy , in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations . Lastly , her dreams are so chaste , that she dare tell them ; only a Friday's dream is all her ...
... honest thoughts and prayers , but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy , in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations . Lastly , her dreams are so chaste , that she dare tell them ; only a Friday's dream is all her ...
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... honest soul , in the same manner as he can wash his body in an obscure fountain , better than in the wide ocean . When he seems lazy and void of action , I dare approve his harmless negligence , rather than many approved men's diligence ...
... honest soul , in the same manner as he can wash his body in an obscure fountain , better than in the wide ocean . When he seems lazy and void of action , I dare approve his harmless negligence , rather than many approved men's diligence ...
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... honest , 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.
... honest , 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.
Contents
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10 | |
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29 | |
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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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