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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... fall in the winter time , yet in the southern parts ( especially ) it seldom lies long on the ground . Also the cool blasts of sea winds mitigate the heat of summer . By reason of this temper , laurel and rosemary flourish all winter ...
... fall in the winter time , yet in the southern parts ( especially ) it seldom lies long on the ground . Also the cool blasts of sea winds mitigate the heat of summer . By reason of this temper , laurel and rosemary flourish all winter ...
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... fall to a woman , the Queen absolute , as I have heretofore said : in whose name and by whose authority all things are administered . The gentlemen , which be divided into two parts , the barony or estate of lords containing barons and ...
... fall to a woman , the Queen absolute , as I have heretofore said : in whose name and by whose authority all things are administered . The gentlemen , which be divided into two parts , the barony or estate of lords containing barons and ...
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... falls for the black - bird ; nor oppression , but when in the month of July , he goes to the next river , and shears his sheep . He allows of honest pastime , and thinks not the bones of the dead any thing bruised , or the worse for it ...
... falls for the black - bird ; nor oppression , but when in the month of July , he goes to the next river , and shears his sheep . He allows of honest pastime , and thinks not the bones of the dead any thing bruised , or the worse for it ...
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... fall and kiss her feet when she reaps them , as if they wished to be bound and led prisoners by the same hand that felled them . Her breath is her own , which scents all the year long of June , like a new - made hay - cock . She makes ...
... fall and kiss her feet when she reaps them , as if they wished to be bound and led prisoners by the same hand that felled them . Her breath is her own , which scents all the year long of June , like a new - made hay - cock . She makes ...
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... falling to a new fight , very sharp and eager on both sides , at last the old cock finding his old hold of the young cock's jollops taken from him , was fain to cry creak , and to run away as fast from the young cock , as the young cock ...
... falling to a new fight , very sharp and eager on both sides , at last the old cock finding his old hold of the young cock's jollops taken from him , was fain to cry creak , and to run away as fast from the young cock , as the young cock ...
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 |
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 |