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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... ; he that can make the most notorious lie , and disguise falsehood in such sort that he may pass unperceived , is held the best writer . -from " A second and third blast of retrait from plaies and Theatres , " 1580 ENER.
... ; he that can make the most notorious lie , and disguise falsehood in such sort that he may pass unperceived , is held the best writer . -from " A second and third blast of retrait from plaies and Theatres , " 1580 ENER.
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... sort England hath infinite quantity , as of metals , so of wool , and of woollen clothes to be exported . The English beer is famous in Netherland and lower Germany , which is made of barley 2 ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH.
... sort England hath infinite quantity , as of metals , so of wool , and of woollen clothes to be exported . The English beer is famous in Netherland and lower Germany , which is made of barley 2 ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH.
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... sort with bricks ; their roofs are low , and where the owner has money , covered with lead . They are powerful in the field , successful against their enemies , impatient of anything like slavery ; vastly fond of great noises that fill ...
... sort with bricks ; their roofs are low , and where the owner has money , covered with lead . They are powerful in the field , successful against their enemies , impatient of anything like slavery ; vastly fond of great noises that fill ...
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... 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 , and commonly ...
... 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 , and commonly ...
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... sort thereof , be written esquires . So amongst the husbandmen , labourers , lowest and rascal sort of the people , such as be exempted out of the number of the rascability of the popular be called and written yeoman , as in the degree ...
... sort thereof , be written esquires . So amongst the husbandmen , labourers , lowest and rascal sort of the people , such as be exempted out of the number of the rascability of the popular be called and written yeoman , as in the degree ...
Contenido
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 |
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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 |