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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... merchants ' wives , lap - dogs § 6. THE PLAague . The beggar's opportunity , medical treatment , flight from London PAGE 102 122 135 CHAPTER VI . BOOKS AND AUTHORS Patronage , portrait of a poet , an author's complaint , a pot- poet , a ...
... merchants ' wives , lap - dogs § 6. THE PLAague . The beggar's opportunity , medical treatment , flight from London PAGE 102 122 135 CHAPTER VI . BOOKS AND AUTHORS Patronage , portrait of a poet , an author's complaint , a pot- poet , a ...
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... Merchant of Venice , Antony and Cleopatra , The Tempest ) Cleopatra , England's naval power , a merchant , the sailor's life , the story of the Revenge , discovery , colonization , travellers ' tales CONCLUSION . AN ELIZABETHAN DAY ...
... Merchant of Venice , Antony and Cleopatra , The Tempest ) Cleopatra , England's naval power , a merchant , the sailor's life , the story of the Revenge , discovery , colonization , travellers ' tales CONCLUSION . AN ELIZABETHAN DAY ...
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... merchants and retailers which have no free land , copyholders , and all artificers , as tailors , shoemakers ... merchant the retailer . The re- tailer the craftsman . The better sort of craftsmen the. 7 ENGLISH SNOBBERY.
... merchants and retailers which have no free land , copyholders , and all artificers , as tailors , shoemakers ... merchant the retailer . The re- tailer the craftsman . The better sort of craftsmen the. 7 ENGLISH SNOBBERY.
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... merchants by the great , and hardly leave the retailing com- modity to men of inferior sort . And by this course they preserve the dignity and patrimony of their progenitors , suffering not the sinew of the commonwealth upon any ...
... merchants by the great , and hardly leave the retailing com- modity to men of inferior sort . And by this course they preserve the dignity and patrimony of their progenitors , suffering not the sinew of the commonwealth upon any ...
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... 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 upper garment , and the trees put out ...
... 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 upper garment , and the trees put out ...
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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