Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan ProseCosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 1 - 328 páginas British 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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... death . William Harrison and others give our fancy the entry to his house , his garden and his orchard , and even allow us to picture him at his table or in his bed- chamber . Moreover since this was the period when Shakespeare's ...
... death . William Harrison and others give our fancy the entry to his house , his garden and his orchard , and even allow us to picture him at his table or in his bed- chamber . Moreover since this was the period when Shakespeare's ...
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... death , out of the sixty - nine used only four being earlier and some half dozen later than this period . Finally , since the collection has been made primarily in the interests of the general reader and the student rather than of the ...
... death , out of the sixty - nine used only four being earlier and some half dozen later than this period . Finally , since the collection has been made primarily in the interests of the general reader and the student rather than of the ...
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... DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH • 202 Part III . Shakespeare's last years , Stratford 1608-1616 Buys New Place and other property at Stratford 1597 : leaves London 1608 : writes his last plays The Winter's Tale and The Tempest : dies 1616 ...
... DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH • 202 Part III . Shakespeare's last years , Stratford 1608-1616 Buys New Place and other property at Stratford 1597 : leaves London 1608 : writes his last plays The Winter's Tale and The Tempest : dies 1616 ...
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... death the furthest way about ; he with a few simples preserves himself and family to the most lengthened sufferance of nature . Tar and honey be his mithridates and syrups ; the which , together with a Christmas carol , defend his ...
... death the furthest way about ; he with a few simples preserves himself and family to the most lengthened sufferance of nature . Tar and honey be his mithridates and syrups ; the which , together with a Christmas carol , defend his ...
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... death - bed , no sin troubles him so much , as that he did once eat flesh on a Friday : no repentance can expiate that ; the rest need none . There is no dream of his , without an interpretation , without a prediction ; and , if the ...
... death - bed , no sin troubles him so much , as that he did once eat flesh on a Friday : no repentance can expiate that ; the rest need none . There is no dream of his , without an interpretation , without a prediction ; and , if the ...
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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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Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose John Dover Wilson Vista previa limitada - 1913 |
Life in Shakespeare's England; a Book of Elizabethan Prose John Dover Wilson Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance amongst apparel attire beasts better body called carbonadoed chamber comedy command common commonly court dance devil dice dinner dish divers doth drink Duke of Würtemberg England English eyes Falstaff fashion fear fellow FYNES MORYSON gentlemen GERVASE MARKHAM give hand hast hath head Henry IV honest honour horse keep King labour land learning live London look Lord Majesty manner master means meat Merchant of Venice merry Midsummer Night's Dream morning never NICHOLAS BRETON night persons PHILIP STUBBES play players poor Queen quoth Robin rogues saith scholars servants shew shillings ships sometimes sort speak STEPHEN GOSSON strange sundry tavern theatre thee thereof things THOMAS DEKKER THOMAS NASHE thou trenchers unto wherein wine withal words worthy young
Referencias a este libro
American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American Character Rupert Wilkinson Vista de fragmentos - 1984 |
Shakespearean Language: A Guide for Actors and Students Leslie O'Dell Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |