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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... fair , well - dressed and modest , which is seen there more than elsewhere , as they go about the streets without any covering either of huke or mantle , hood , veil , or the like . Married women only wear a hat both in the street and ...
... fair , well - dressed and modest , which is seen there more than elsewhere , as they go about the streets without any covering either of huke or mantle , hood , veil , or the like . Married women only wear a hat both in the street and ...
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... fair weather : so that one may glean harvest out of him to be his time of happiness : but the tithe - sheaf goes against his conscience ; for he had rather spend the value upon his reapers and ploughmen than bestow any thing to the ...
... fair weather : so that one may glean harvest out of him to be his time of happiness : but the tithe - sheaf goes against his conscience ; for he had rather spend the value upon his reapers and ploughmen than bestow any thing to the ...
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... Fair and Happy Milkmaid The queen of curds and cream . The Winter's Tale , Iv . iv . 161 A fair and happy milkmaid is a country wench , that is so far from making herself beautiful by art , that one look of hers is able to put all face ...
... Fair and Happy Milkmaid The queen of curds and cream . The Winter's Tale , Iv . iv . 161 A fair and happy milkmaid is a country wench , that is so far from making herself beautiful by art , that one look of hers is able to put all face ...
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... fair ; and in choosing her garments , counts no bravery in the world like decency . The garden and bee - hive are all her physic and chirurgery , and she lives the longer for it . She dares go alone and unfold sheep in the night , and ...
... fair ; and in choosing her garments , counts no bravery in the world like decency . The garden and bee - hive are all her physic and chirurgery , and she lives the longer for it . She dares go alone and unfold sheep in the night , and ...
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... fair promises , do carry men to 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 ...
... fair promises , do carry men to 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 ...
Contenido
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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 |
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 |