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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... fear I cannot altogether have avoided the dangers . Free changes also have been made in the punctuation where sense or the modern eye seemed to require them . The glossary at the end ought to explain most of the names , strange words ...
... fear I cannot altogether have avoided the dangers . Free changes also have been made in the punctuation where sense or the modern eye seemed to require them . The glossary at the end ought to explain most of the names , strange words ...
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... fear his audit , for his quietus is in heaven . SIR THOMAS OVERBURY , Characters 1614-16 A Farmer Is a concealed commodity . His worth or value is not fully known till he be half rotten : and then he is worth nothing . He hath religion ...
... fear his audit , for his quietus is in heaven . SIR THOMAS OVERBURY , Characters 1614-16 A Farmer Is a concealed commodity . His worth or value is not fully known till he be half rotten : and then he is worth nothing . He hath religion ...
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... fears no manner of ill , because she means none : yet to say truth , she is never alone , for she is still accompanied ... fear of anger . Thus lives she , and all her care is she may die in the spring - time , to have store of flowers ...
... fears no manner of ill , because she means none : yet to say truth , she is never alone , for she is still accompanied ... fear of anger . Thus lives she , and all her care is she may die in the spring - time , to have store of flowers ...
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... fear , Unpleasing to a married ear ! II When shepherds pipe on oaten straws , And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks , When turtles tread , and rooks , and daws , And maidens bleach their summer smocks , The cuckoo then , on every tree ...
... fear , Unpleasing to a married ear ! II When shepherds pipe on oaten straws , And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks , When turtles tread , and rooks , and daws , And maidens bleach their summer smocks , The cuckoo then , on every tree ...
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... fear - would well become A woman's story at a winter's fire , Authoriz'd by her grandam . Macbeth , III iv . 63-66 §1 . The nature of superstition Superstition is godless religion , devout impiety . The super- stitious is fond in ...
... fear - would well become A woman's story at a winter's fire , Authoriz'd by her grandam . Macbeth , III iv . 63-66 §1 . The nature of superstition Superstition is godless religion , devout impiety . The super- stitious is fond in ...
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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 |