Shakespeare's England : life in Elizabethan & Jacobean times

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Shakespeare's England : life in Elizabethan & Jacobean times

edited & introduced by R.E. Pritchard

Sutton Pub., 1999

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Shakespeare's England : life in Elizabethan and Jacobean times

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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What was life like in Shakespeare's time - or, what did people then say it was like? This volume provides a picture of the age, with a selection of accounts of Elizabethan and Jacobean life taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. Extracts have been taken from a wide range of writers, including 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), Stubbs (with a Puritan's 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. Also included are accounts of theatre-going, May Day celebrations, Queen Elizabeth at court, the place of women, education, garden books and herbals, clothes, food, drink and religion. The extracts are organized thematically, each section having an introduction reflecting modern historical research. A miscellany of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual of 16th and 17th-century writing, this book aims to bring to life the variety, the energy and the often harsh reality of the society that produced England's greatest writer.

Table of Contents

  • England and the English
  • women and men
  • house and home
  • country life
  • education
  • beliefs
  • the court
  • London
  • arts and pleasures
  • poverty, crime and punishment
  • over seas.

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