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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... live idly and without manual labour , and will bear the port , charge and countenance of a gentleman , he shall be called master , for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen , and shall be taken for a gentleman ...
... live idly and without manual labour , and will bear the port , charge and countenance of a gentleman , he shall be called master , for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen , and shall be taken for a gentleman ...
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... live wealthily , 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 ...
... live wealthily , 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 ...
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... live of their revenues , citizens by traffic , and the common sort by the plough and manual arts , as divers members ... lives only excepted . Therefore , when they marry , they give up the surname of their father and of the family from ...
... live of their revenues , citizens by traffic , and the common sort by the plough and manual arts , as divers members ... lives only excepted . Therefore , when they marry , they give up the surname of their father and of the family from ...
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... lives , yet they are not kept so strictly as they are in Spain or elsewhere . Nor are they shut up : but they have the free management of the house or housekeeping , after the fashion of those of the Netherlands , and others their ...
... lives , yet they are not kept so strictly as they are in Spain or elsewhere . Nor are they shut up : but they have the free management of the house or housekeeping , after the fashion of those of the Netherlands , and others their ...
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... lives the longer for it . She dares go alone and unfold sheep in the night , and fears no manner of ill , because she means none : yet to say truth , she is never alone , for she is still accompanied with old songs , honest thoughts and ...
... lives the longer for it . She dares go alone and unfold sheep in the night , and fears no manner of ill , because she means none : yet to say truth , she is never alone , for she is still accompanied with old songs , honest thoughts and ...
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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 |
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
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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 |