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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... masters , has little leisure , and , it may be , little inclination , to become a professed student of literature . They seek to provide such a reader with first - hand knowledge of the literary atmosphere and social conditions in which ...
... masters , has little leisure , and , it may be , little inclination , to become a professed student of literature . They seek to provide such a reader with first - hand knowledge of the literary atmosphere and social conditions in which ...
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... masters ' arms in silver fastened to their left arms , and are not undeservedly ridiculed for wearing tails hanging down their backs . They excel in dancing and music , for they are active and lively , though of a thicker make than the ...
... masters ' arms in silver fastened to their left arms , and are not undeservedly ridiculed for wearing tails hanging down their backs . They excel in dancing and music , for they are active and lively , though of a thicker make than the ...
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... master , for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen , and shall be taken for a gentleman : for true it is with us as is said , Tanti eris aliis quanti tibi feceris . And ( if need be ) a king of heralds shall ...
... master , for that is the title which men give to esquires and other gentlemen , and shall be taken for a gentleman : for true it is with us as is said , Tanti eris aliis quanti tibi feceris . And ( if need be ) a king of heralds shall ...
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... master's : by these means do come to such wealth , that they are able and daily do buy the lands of unthrifty gentlemen , and after setting their sons to the school at the universities , to the law of the realm , or otherwise leaving ...
... master's : by these means do come to such wealth , that they are able and daily do buy the lands of unthrifty gentlemen , and after setting their sons to the school at the universities , to the law of the realm , or otherwise leaving ...
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... master , he says not to his servants , ' Go to field , ' but ' Let us go ' ; and with his own eye doth both fatten his flock , and set forward all manner of husbandry . He is taught by nature to be contented with a little ; his own fold ...
... master , he says not to his servants , ' Go to field , ' but ' Let us go ' ; and with his own eye doth both fatten his flock , and set forward all manner of husbandry . He is taught by nature to be contented with a little ; his own fold ...
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10 | |
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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 |