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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... played around the land- rogues and water - rogues which add so much that is splendid and picturesque to Elizabethan ... plays , not excluding those whose scene is laid in Italy or ancient Rome . This book , therefore , is intended as a ...
... played around the land- rogues and water - rogues which add so much that is splendid and picturesque to Elizabethan ... plays , not excluding those whose scene is laid in Italy or ancient Rome . This book , therefore , is intended as a ...
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... play § 3. FESTIVAL CHAPTER III . Christmas , Good Friday , Easter , May Day , Robin Hood , the Lord of Misrule SUPERSTITION • • ( Midsummer Night's Dream , Julius Caesar , Macbeth , Hamlet , King Lear , The Tempest ) § I. THE NATURE OF ...
... play § 3. FESTIVAL CHAPTER III . Christmas , Good Friday , Easter , May Day , Robin Hood , the Lord of Misrule SUPERSTITION • • ( Midsummer Night's Dream , Julius Caesar , Macbeth , Hamlet , King Lear , The Tempest ) § I. THE NATURE OF ...
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... player , magni- ficence of players ' dress , the queen's players on tour , a royal licence § 5. PURITAN OPPOSITION TO THE THEATRE Denunciation from Paul's Cross , a sweeping con- demnation , attitude of the city authorities , a ...
... player , magni- ficence of players ' dress , the queen's players on tour , a royal licence § 5. PURITAN OPPOSITION TO THE THEATRE Denunciation from Paul's Cross , a sweeping con- demnation , attitude of the city authorities , a ...
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... 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 QUEEN ELIZABETH • 202 Part III . Shakespeare's last years , Stratford ...
... 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 QUEEN ELIZABETH • 202 Part III . Shakespeare's last years , Stratford ...
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... playing at cards or otherwise , in visiting their friends and keeping company , conversing with their equals ( whom they term gossips ) and their neighbours , and making merry with them at child - births , christenings , churchings and ...
... playing at cards or otherwise , in visiting their friends and keeping company , conversing with their equals ( whom they term gossips ) and their neighbours , and making merry with them at child - births , christenings , churchings and ...
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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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |