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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... side of the picture § 3 . MASQUES AT COURT • • 198 § 4 . THE DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH • 202 Part III . Shakespeare's last years , Stratford 1608-1616 Buys New Place and other property at Stratford 1597 : leaves London 1608 : writes his ...
... side of the picture § 3 . MASQUES AT COURT • • 198 § 4 . THE DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH • 202 Part III . Shakespeare's last years , Stratford 1608-1616 Buys New Place and other property at Stratford 1597 : leaves London 1608 : writes his ...
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... side ; they are good sailors , and better pirates , cunning , treacherous , and thievish ; above 300 are said to be hanged annually at London . Beheading with them is less infamous than hanging . They give the wall as the place of ...
... side ; they are good sailors , and better pirates , cunning , treacherous , and thievish ; above 300 are said to be hanged annually at London . Beheading with them is less infamous than hanging . They give the wall as the place of ...
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... side of his beak , and a friend of his giving him after- wards a cock and a hen of the game , as they call them ( the cockscomb and jollops being finely cut off , close to the head , for advantage in fighting ) it fell out that the two ...
... side of his beak , and a friend of his giving him after- wards a cock and a hen of the game , as they call them ( the cockscomb and jollops being finely cut off , close to the head , for advantage in fighting ) it fell out that the two ...
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... sides , at last the old cock finding his old hold of the young cock's jollops taken from him , was fain to cry creak , and to run away as fast from the young cock , as the young cock did from him before ; and ever after the young cock ...
... sides , at last the old cock finding his old hold of the young cock's jollops taken from him , was fain to cry creak , and to run away as fast from the young cock , as the young cock did from him before ; and ever after the young cock ...
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... sides in the night , or out of their cradles , or otherwise kill them with their ceremonies ; and after burial steal them out of their graves , and seethe them in a cauldron , until their flesh be made potable . Of the thickest whereof ...
... sides in the night , or out of their cradles , or otherwise kill them with their ceremonies ; and after burial steal them out of their graves , and seethe them in a cauldron , until their flesh be made potable . Of the thickest whereof ...
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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 |