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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... present , this need is satisfied only by reference to histories of literature , which have too many preoccupations to deal justly with it , or to authorities even less accessible . It is the object of this series to let each age speak ...
... present , this need is satisfied only by reference to histories of literature , which have too many preoccupations to deal justly with it , or to authorities even less accessible . It is the object of this series to let each age speak ...
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... present . This sort of people confess themselves to be no gentle- men , but give the honour to all which be or take upon them to be gentlemen , and yet they have a certain pre - eminence and more estimation than labourers and artificers ...
... present . This sort of people confess themselves to be no gentle- men , but give the honour to all which be or take upon them to be gentlemen , and yet they have a certain pre - eminence and more estimation than labourers and artificers ...
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... present , and caused the young cock's pendant jollops to be cut off , and his head trim'd for the fight , as the old cock's was , who had at first so beaten the young cock , that he durst not stay within his view . But after the sores ...
... present , and caused the young cock's pendant jollops to be cut off , and his head trim'd for the fight , as the old cock's was , who had at first so beaten the young cock , that he durst not stay within his view . But after the sores ...
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... presents . The Lord of Misrule is no mean man for his time , and the guests of the high table must lack no wine . The lusty bloods must look about them like men , and piping and dancing puts away much melancholy . Stolen venison is ...
... presents . The Lord of Misrule is no mean man for his time , and the guests of the high table must lack no wine . The lusty bloods must look about them like men , and piping and dancing puts away much melancholy . Stolen venison is ...
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... present amongst them , as super- intendent and lord over their pastimes and sports , namely Sathan , prince of hell . But their chiefest jewel they bring from thence is their May - pole , which they bring home with great veneration , as ...
... present amongst them , as super- intendent and lord over their pastimes and sports , namely Sathan , prince of hell . But their chiefest jewel they bring from thence is their May - pole , which they bring home with great veneration , as ...
Contenido
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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 |