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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... hundred acres , for he murmurs against himself , because he cannot purchase more . To purchase arms ( if he emulates gentry ) sets upon him like an ague : it breaks his sleep , takes away his stomach , and he can never be quiet till the ...
... hundred acres , for he murmurs against himself , because he cannot purchase more . To purchase arms ( if he emulates gentry ) sets upon him like an ague : it breaks his sleep , takes away his stomach , and he can never be quiet till the ...
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... hundred such murdering devices . And hereof groweth envy , malice , rancour , choler , hatred , displeasure , enmity and what not else : and sometimes fighting , brawling , contention 18 THE COUNTRYSIDE Hunting, football, bowling, a ...
... hundred such murdering devices . And hereof groweth envy , malice , rancour , choler , hatred , displeasure , enmity and what not else : and sometimes fighting , brawling , contention 18 THE COUNTRYSIDE Hunting, football, bowling, a ...
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... hundred men , women and children following it with great devotion . And thus being reared up with handkerchiefs and flags streaming on the top , they straw the ground about , bind green boughs about it , set up summer - halls , bowers ...
... hundred men , women and children following it with great devotion . And thus being reared up with handkerchiefs and flags streaming on the top , they straw the ground about , bind green boughs about it , set up summer - halls , bowers ...
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... of Misrule , and him they crown with great solemnity , and adopt for their king . This king annointed , chooseth forth twenty , forty , threescore or a hundred lusty guts , like to himself , to wait upon his 25 FESTIVAL.
... of Misrule , and him they crown with great solemnity , and adopt for their king . This king annointed , chooseth forth twenty , forty , threescore or a hundred lusty guts , like to himself , to wait upon his 25 FESTIVAL.
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... hundred , and that all they together went to sea , each one in a riddle or sieve , and went into the same very substantially , with flagons of wine , making merry and drinking by the way in the same riddles or sieves , to the kirk of ...
... hundred , and that all they together went to sea , each one in a riddle or sieve , and went into the same very substantially , with flagons of wine , making merry and drinking by the way in the same riddles or sieves , to the kirk of ...
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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 |