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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... keep good houses , and do their business , and travail to acquire riches . These be ( for the most part ) farmers unto gentlemen , which with grazing , frequenting of markets , and keeping servants not idle as the gentleman doth , but ...
... keep good houses , and do their business , and travail to acquire riches . These be ( for the most part ) farmers unto gentlemen , which with grazing , frequenting of markets , and keeping servants not idle as the gentleman doth , but ...
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... keeping company , conversing with their equals ( whom they term gossips ) and their neighbours , and making merry with them at child - births , christenings , churchings and funerals ; and all this with the permission and knowledge of ...
... keeping company , conversing with their equals ( whom they term gossips ) and their neighbours , and making merry with them at child - births , christenings , churchings and funerals ; and all this with the permission and knowledge of ...
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... cake , these he yearly keeps , yet holds them no relics of popery * . He is not so inquisitive after news derived from the privy closet , when the finding an aerie of hawks. * i.c . as the Puritans did . II COUNTRY - FOLK.
... cake , these he yearly keeps , yet holds them no relics of popery * . He is not so inquisitive after news derived from the privy closet , when the finding an aerie of hawks. * i.c . as the Puritans did . II COUNTRY - FOLK.
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... keeping him in delights and pleasures , drew him from his graver counsellors , hearing of sermons , and listening to good counsel and admonitions , that in the end they got him to lie down in a cradle upon the stage , where these 20 THE ...
... keeping him in delights and pleasures , drew him from his graver counsellors , hearing of sermons , and listening to good counsel and admonitions , that in the end they got him to lie down in a cradle upon the stage , where these 20 THE ...
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... keep them from seeing of spectacles of ill examples , and hearing of lascivious or scurrilous words ; for that their young memories are like fair writing - tables , wherein if the fair sentences or lessons of grace be written , they may ...
... keep them from seeing of spectacles of ill examples , and hearing of lascivious or scurrilous words ; for that their young memories are like fair writing - tables , wherein if the fair sentences or lessons of grace be written , they may ...
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man London Bridge Cheapside a shopkeeper | 92 |
2 PLAYHOUSES AND BEARGARDENS | 160 |
THE AUDIENCE | 166 |
4 THE ACTOR AND HIS CRAFT | 172 |
THE COURT | 190 |
3 | 198 |
brawling constables and watchmen London | 229 |
THE | 251 |
CONCLUSION AN ELIZABETHAN | 274 |
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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
Agnes Sampson amongst apparel Arimaspi attire beasts better body called carbonadoed chamber Civis clothes comedy command common court dance devil dice dinner dish divers doth drink Duke of Würtemberg England English eyes fashion fear fellow FYNES MORYSON gentlemen GERVASE MARKHAM give hand hast hath heads honour horse King labour land learning live London look Lord Majesty manner master means meat Merchant of Venice merchants merry Midsummer Night's Dream mistress morning never NICHOLAS BRETON night PHILIP STUBBES play play-house players poor pound Queen quoth REGINALD SCOT rogues saith scholars servants shew shillings ships sort speak stage STEPHEN GOSSON strange sundry tavern theatre thee thereof things THOMAS DEKKER THOMAS NASHE thou thought tragedy trenchers unto wherein wine withal word 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 |