Elizabethan-Jacobean drama
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Elizabethan-Jacobean drama
（The new mermaids）（A New Mermaid background book）
A & C Black, 1989, c1988
- : pbk
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Using selections from the whole spectrum of the writing of the period, this book both places the world of the theatre in the immediate context of the life of the time, and illustrates the problems of everyday life as the fruitful source of material to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. C B Evans is Cabot Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The theatre and the world: attitudes toward the drama in Elizabethan-Jacobean England
- the audience
- London companies and strolling players
- the playhouses
- play genres and repertories
- costumes, properties and scenery
- acting
- the actors
- country festivals and entertainments. Part 2 The world and the theatre: domestic life - food and drink, houses and furniture, clothes
- education
- sports - hunting, hawking and other pastimes, bear-baiting and cock-fighting
- the Court - Queen Elizabeth, King James, some other Court matters
- London - life and sights
- the underworld in town and country
- Church and State - the religious climate.
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