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Shakespeare's England

Author : Louis B. Wright
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612309917
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's England written by Louis B. Wright and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William Shakespeare was about twenty, his life changed forever. He left Stratford and walked to London, where he became the world's greatest playwright. Here is his little-told story of Shakespeare, presented against the colorful tapestry of his England, the kingdom under Elizabeth I and James I. In the reigns of those monarchs, the nation was emerging from centuries of medieval turmoil. The small island that had changed so little since the Norman Conquest of 1066 suddenly became a center of international adventure, political experimentation, and artistic development. Young Shakespeare was fortunate to be in England, and in London, when he was. The first professional theatre opened in the capital in 1576; he arrived, stage-struck and in search of a job, around 1587. He retired to Stratford as a wealthy gentleman in 1611, only a generation before the theatres of England were closed by the Puritans. During Shakespeare's London years, England seethed with plots and intrigue and throbbed with pageantry; everywhere a writer looked there was a scene to fire his imagination. Like Sir Walter Raleigh and other daring contemporaries, William Shakespeare was, indeed, an Elizabethan who took advantage of his time.

Shakespeare's England

Author : R. E Pritchard
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750952822
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's England written by R. E Pritchard and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. "Shakespeare's England" brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. These include William Harrison and Fynes Moryson (providing descriptions of England), Nicholas Breton (on country life), Isabella Whitney and Thomas Dekker (on London life), Nashe (on struggling writers), Stubbes (with a Puritan view of Elizabethan enjoyments), Harsnet and Burton (on witches and spirits), John Donne (meditations on prayer and death), King James I (on tobacco) and Shakespeare himself.

Voices of Shakespeare's England

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313357412
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Shakespeare's England written by John A. Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps readers explore the era that produced, among other things, the world's greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare's lifetime, including letters, literature, speeches and polemics, official reports, and descriptive narratives. Voices of Shakespeare's England includes the works of Shakespeare himself, as well as other poets and playwrights, but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics, religion, economics, social change, and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare's contemporaries to speak in their own voices, it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society, including major historic events in England as well as Scotland, Ireland, the European continent, and even the new world of America.

Shakespeare's England

Author : William Winter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's England written by William Winter and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England

Author : W. Hamlin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502768
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England written by W. Hamlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's career-long struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin's book explores the deep connections between scepticism and tragedy in plays ranging from Doctor Faustus and Troilus and Cressida to The Tragedy of Mariam , The Duchess of Malfi , and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore .

Life in Shakespeare's England

Author : John Dover Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Life in Shakespeare's England written by John Dover Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Library

Author : Stuart Kells
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640093826
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Library written by Stuart Kells and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tantalizing true story of one of literature’s most enduring enigmas is at the heart of this “lively, even sprightly book” (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)—the quest to find the personal library of the world’s greatest writer. Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world’s most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare’s library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens and partridge coops; and in the corridors of the mind. Yet no trace of the bard’s manuscripts, books or letters has ever been found. The search for Shakespeare’s library is much more than a treasure hunt. Knowing what the Bard read informs our reading of his work, and it offers insight into the mythos of Shakespeare and the debate around authorship. The library’s fate has profound implications for literature, for national and cultural identity, and for the global Shakespeare industry. It bears on fundamental principles of art, identity, history, meaning and truth. Unfolding the search like the mystery story that it is, acclaimed author Stuart Kells follows the trail of the hunters, taking us through different conceptions of the library and of the man himself. Entertaining and enlightening, Shakespeare’s Library is a captivating exploration of one of literature’s most enduring enigmas. "An engaging and provocative contribution to the unending world of Shakespeariana . . . An enchanting work that bibliophiles will savor and Shakespeare fans adore." ―Kirkus Reviews

Understanding Shakespeare's England

Author : Jo McMurtry
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Shakespeare's England written by Jo McMurtry and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's world--from cosmology to witchcraft, marriage to cuckoldry, aristocracy to money, drinking habits to music--all explored in this volume.

Shakespeare's English Kings

Author : Peter Saccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019988076X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's English Kings written by Peter Saccio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the Richards, Edwards, Henrys, Warwicks and Norfolks who ruled and fought across Shakespeare's page and stage. Not only theater-goers and students, but today's film-goers who want to enrich their understanding of film adaptations of plays such as Richard III and Henry V will find this revised edition of Shakespeare's English Kings to be an essential companion. Saccio's engaging narrative weaves together three threads: medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material, that history as understood by modern scholars, and the action of the plays themselves. Including a new preface, a revised further reading list, genealogical charts, an appendix of names and titles, and an index, the second edition of Shakespeare's English Kings offers excellent background reading for all of the ten history plays.

Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England

Author : Caroline Bicks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135191765X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England written by Caroline Bicks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending most Englishwomen's births and testifying to their in extremis confessions about paternity, the midwife allegedly controlled the size of one's tongue and genitals at birth and was obligated to perform virginity exams, impotence tests and emergency baptisms. The signs of purity and masculinity, paternity and salvation were inherently open to interpretation, yet early modern culture authorized midwives to generate and announce them. Midwiving Subjects, then, challenges recent studies that read the midwife as a woman whose power was limited to a marginal and unruly birthroom community and instead uncovers the midwife's foundational role, not only in the rituals of reproduction, but in the process of cultural production itself. As a result of recent changes in managed healthcare and of increased attention to uncovering histories of women's experiences, midwives - past and present - are currently a subject of great interest. This book will appeal to readers interested in Shakespeare as well as the history of women and medicine.

England in the Age of Shakespeare

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253042348
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book England in the Age of Shakespeare written by Jeremy Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did it feel to hear Macbeth’s witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare’s plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare’s audiences would have recognized. These moments of recognition often reflected the audience’s own experiences of what it was to, as Hamlet says, "grunt and sweat under a weary life." Black’s clear and sweeping approach seeks to reclaim Shakespeare from the ivory tower and make the plays’ histories more accessible to the public for whom the plays were always intended.

Shakespeare's England

Author : Charles Talbut Onions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's England written by Charles Talbut Onions and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England

Author : Bruce R. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763668
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England written by Bruce R. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most comprehensive study yet of homosexuality in the English Renaissance, Bruce R. Smith examines and rejects the assessments of homosexual acts in moral philosophy, laws, and medical books in favor of a poetics of homosexual desire. Smith isolates six different "myths" from classical literature and discusses each in relation to a particular Renaissance literary genre and to a particular part of the social structure of early modern England. Smith's new Preface places his work in the context of the continuing controversies in gay, lesbian, and bisexual studies. "The best single analysis of the homoerotic element in Renaissance English literature."—Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books "Smith's lucid and subtle book offer[s] a poetics of homosexual desire. . . . Its scholarship, impressively broad and deftly deployed, aims to further a serious social purpose: the redemptive location of homosexual desire in history and the recuperation for our own time, through an understanding of its discursive embodiments, of that desire's changing imperatives and parameters."—Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement "The great strength of Bruce Smith's book is that it does not sidestep the complex challenge of engaging in the sexual politics of the present while attending to the resistant discourses and practices of Renaissance England. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England demonstrates how a commitment to the present opens up our understanding of the past."—Peter Stallybrass, Shakespeare Quarterly "A major contribution to the understanding of homosexuality in Renaissance England and by far the best and most comprehensive account yet offered of the homoeroticism that suffuses Renaissance literature."—Claude J. Summers, Journal of Homosexuality

Shakespeare's First Reader

Author : Jason Scott-Warren
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296346
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's First Reader written by Jason Scott-Warren and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence; his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a guaranteed income, was the kind of which many men dreamed. Vast sums of money passed through his hands, some of which he used to engage in moneylending and land speculation. He also bought books, lots of them, amassing one of the largest libraries in early modern London. In 1597, all of this was brought to a halt when Stonley, aged around seventy-seven, was incarcerated in the Fleet Prison, convicted of embezzling the spectacular sum of £13,000 from the Exchequer. His property was sold off, and an inventory was made of his house on Aldersgate Street. This provides our most detailed guide to his lost library. By chance, we also have three handwritten volumes of accounts, in which he earlier itemized his spending on food, clothing, travel, and books. It is here that we learn that on June 12, 1593, he bought "the Venus & Adhonay per Shakspere"—the earliest known record of a purchase of Shakespeare's first publication. In Shakespeare's First Reader, Jason Scott-Warren sets Stonley's journals and inventories of goods alongside a wealth of archival evidence to put his life and library back together again. He shows how Stonley's books were integral to the material worlds he inhabited and the social networks he formed with communities of merchants, printers, recusants, and spies. Through a combination of book history and biography, Shakespeare's First Reader provides a compelling "bio-bibliography"—the story of how one early modern gentleman lived in and through his library.

Shakespeare's England

Author : William Winter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's England written by William Winter and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Murder in Shakespeare's England

Author : Vanessa McMahon
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855369
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Shakespeare's England written by Vanessa McMahon and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of how murder was committed, investigated, and punished in Stuart England examines a range of specific cases while discussing the seventeenth-century public's fascination with violence as reflected in its overflowing courtrooms and numerous crime-inspired works of art.

Documents of Shakespeare's England

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440867429
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Documents of Shakespeare's England written by John A. Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging collection of over 60 primary document selections sheds light on the personalities, issues, events, and ideas that defined and shaped life in England during the years of Shakespeare's life and career. Documents of Shakespeare's England contains more than 60 primary document selections that will help readers understand all aspects of life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The book is divided into 12 topical sections, such as Politics and Parliament, London Life, and Queen and Court, which offer five document selections each. Each document is preceded by a detailed introduction that puts the selection into historical context and explains why it is important. A general introduction and chronology help readers understand Shakespeare's England in broad terms and see connections, causes, and consequences. Bibliographies of current and useful print and electronic information resources accompany each document, and a general bibliography lists seminal works on Shakespeare's England. This is an engaging and accurate introduction to the England of William Shakespeare told in the words of those who experienced it.