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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... doth not largely quit the cost of the labour in separating or trying it . Two cities yield medicinal baths , namely Buxton and Bath , and the waters of Bath especially have great virtue in many diseases . England abounds with sea ...
... doth not largely quit the cost of the labour in separating or trying it . Two cities yield medicinal baths , namely Buxton and Bath , and the waters of Bath especially have great virtue in many diseases . England abounds with sea ...
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... doth only make knights and create barons or higher degrees : for as for gentlemen , they be made good cheap in England . For whosoever studieth the laws of the realm , who studieth in the universities , who professeth liberal sciences ...
... doth only make knights and create barons or higher degrees : for as for gentlemen , they be made good cheap in England . For whosoever studieth the laws of the realm , who studieth in the universities , who professeth liberal sciences ...
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... doth , but such as get both their own living and part of their master's : by these means do come to such wealth , that they are able and daily do buy the lands of unthrifty gentlemen , and after setting their sons to the school at the ...
... doth , but such as get both their own living and part of their master's : by these means do come to such wealth , that they are able and daily do buy the lands of unthrifty gentlemen , and after setting their sons to the school at the ...
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... doth both fatten his flock , and set forward all manner of husbandry . He is taught by nature to be contented with a little ; his own fold yields him both food and raiment : he is pleased with any nourishment God sends , whilst curious ...
... doth both fatten his flock , and set forward all manner of husbandry . He is taught by nature to be contented with a little ; his own fold yields him both food and raiment : he is pleased with any nourishment God sends , whilst curious ...
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... doth not , with lying long abed , spoil both her complexion and conditions . Nature hath taught her too immoderate sleep is rust to the soul . She rises therefore with chanticleer , her dame's cock , and at night makes the lamb her ...
... doth not , with lying long abed , spoil both her complexion and conditions . Nature hath taught her too immoderate sleep is rust to the soul . She rises therefore with chanticleer , her dame's cock , and at night makes the lamb her ...
Contenido
| 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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Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose John Dover Wilson Vista previa limitada - 1913 |
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
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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 |