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 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 33
Página x
... labour , I 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 ...
... labour , I 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 ...
Página xiii
... Labour's Lost , Merry Wives of Windsor ) CHILD AND PARENT 49 § 2 . Two views of childhood , parents and children THE GRAMMAr - School 52 An interesting parallel , the school day , punishment , country schoolmasters §3 . THE UNIVERSITY ...
... Labour's Lost , Merry Wives of Windsor ) CHILD AND PARENT 49 § 2 . Two views of childhood , parents and children THE GRAMMAr - School 52 An interesting parallel , the school day , punishment , country schoolmasters §3 . THE UNIVERSITY ...
Página xv
... Labour's Lost , Much Ado About Nothing , Nothing , Hamlet , Historical Plays ) § 1 . QUEEN ELIZABETH AT GREENWICH 191 § 2 . THE COURTIER • • 194 The ideal , the other side of the picture § 3 . MASQUES AT COURT • • 198 § 4 . THE DEATH OF ...
... Labour's Lost , Much Ado About Nothing , Nothing , Hamlet , Historical Plays ) § 1 . QUEEN ELIZABETH AT GREENWICH 191 § 2 . THE COURTIER • • 194 The ideal , the other side of the picture § 3 . MASQUES AT COURT • • 198 § 4 . THE DEATH OF ...
Página 2
... labour in separating or trying it . Two cities yield medicinal baths , namely Buxton and Bath , and the waters of Bath especially have great virtue in many diseases . England abounds with sea - coals upon the sea coast , and with pit ...
... labour in separating or trying it . Two cities yield medicinal baths , namely Buxton and Bath , and the waters of Bath especially have great virtue in many diseases . England abounds with sea - coals upon the sea coast , and with pit ...
Página 3
... labour not to destroy the crows consuming great quantity of corn , because they feed on worms and other things hurting the corn . And in great cities it is forbidden to kill kites and ravens , because they devour the filth of the ...
... labour not to destroy the crows consuming great quantity of corn , because they feed on worms and other things hurting the corn . And in great cities it is forbidden to kill kites and ravens , because they devour the filth of the ...
Contenido
| 1 | |
| 10 | |
| 16 | |
| 22 | |
| 29 | |
| 33 | |
| 46 | |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |