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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... things hurting the corn . And in great cities it is forbidden to kill kites and ravens , because they devour the filth of the streets . England hath very great plenty of sea and river fish , especially above all other parts abundance of ...
... things hurting the corn . And in great cities it is forbidden to kill kites and ravens , because they devour the filth of the streets . England hath very great plenty of sea and river fish , especially above all other parts abundance of ...
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... things are administered . The gentlemen , which be divided into two parts , the barony or estate of lords containing barons and all that be above the degree of a baron , ( as I have declared before ) : and those which be no lords , as ...
... things are administered . The gentlemen , which be divided into two parts , the barony or estate of lords containing barons and all that be above the degree of a baron , ( as I have declared before ) : and those which be no lords , as ...
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... thing . I would not change it . As You Like It , 11. i . 15-18 §1 . Country - folk A Country Gentleman Remember who commended thy yellow stockings . Twelfth Night , II . v . 160 Is a thing , out of whose corruption the generation of a ...
... thing . I would not change it . As You Like It , 11. i . 15-18 §1 . Country - folk A Country Gentleman Remember who commended thy yellow stockings . Twelfth Night , II . v . 160 Is a thing , out of whose corruption the generation of a ...
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... thing bruised , or the worse for it , though the country lasses dance in the church- yard after evensong . Rock Monday , and the wake in summer , shrovings , the wakeful ketches on Christmas Eve , the hockey or seed cake , these he ...
... thing bruised , or the worse for it , though the country lasses dance in the church- yard after evensong . Rock Monday , and the wake in summer , shrovings , the wakeful ketches on Christmas Eve , the hockey or seed cake , these he ...
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... thing to the mainten- ance of a parson . He is sufficiently book - read , nay a profound doctor , if he can search into the diseases of cattle : and to foretell rain by tokens makes him a miraculous astronomer . To speak good English is ...
... thing to the mainten- ance of a parson . He is sufficiently book - read , nay a profound doctor , if he can search into the diseases of cattle : and to foretell rain by tokens makes him a miraculous astronomer . To speak good English is ...
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 |