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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... horse , and my company , and went thither . I thought I should have found a great company in the church , and when I came there , the church door was fast locked . I tarried there half an hour and more , at last the key was found , and ...
... horse , and my company , and went thither . I thought I should have found a great company in the church , and when I came there , the church door was fast locked . I tarried there half an hour and more , at last the key was found , and ...
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... horses , dragons and other antics , together with their bawdy pipers and thundering drummers to strike up the devil's dance withal . Then march these heathen company towards the church and church - yard , their pipers piping , their ...
... horses , dragons and other antics , together with their bawdy pipers and thundering drummers to strike up the devil's dance withal . Then march these heathen company towards the church and church - yard , their pipers piping , their ...
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... horse I'll be , sometime a hound , A hog , a headless bear , sometime a fire ; And neigh , and bark , and grunt , and roar , and burn , Like horse , hound , hog , bear , fire , at every turn . A Midsummer Night's Dream , III . i . 112 ...
... horse I'll be , sometime a hound , A hog , a headless bear , sometime a fire ; And neigh , and bark , and grunt , and roar , and burn , Like horse , hound , hog , bear , fire , at every turn . A Midsummer Night's Dream , III . i . 112 ...
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... at his foolish sports , but his game is our earnest and his drums , rattles , and hobby - horses but the emblems and mocking of men's business . His father hath writ him as his own little story , wherein he W. 49 D EDUCATION.
... at his foolish sports , but his game is our earnest and his drums , rattles , and hobby - horses but the emblems and mocking of men's business . His father hath writ him as his own little story , wherein he W. 49 D EDUCATION.
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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 |
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 |