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Shakespeare's England : life in Elizabethan & Jacobean times
- Title
- Shakespeare's England : life in Elizabethan & Jacobean times / edited & introduced by R.E. Pritchard.
- Publication
- Stroud : Sutton, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DA320 .S53 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Pritchard, R. E.
- Description
- 252 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Accounts from sixteenth- and seventeenth century books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets describe Elizabethan and Jacobean life. Lively extracts from the works of a wide range of writers describe theatre-going, clothes, food, drink, Queen Elizabeth at court, etc.
- Subject
- 1500-1700
- English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700
- English prose literature > Early modern
- Manners and customs
- Alltag
- Literatur
- Littérature anglaise > 17e siècle
- Littérature anglaise > 16e siècle > Thèmes, motifs
- England > Social life and customs > 16th century
- England > Social life and customs > 17th century
- England
- Angleterre (GB) > Moeurs et coutumes > 16e siècle
- Englisch
- Note
- Accounts of Elizabethan and Jacobean life taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-249) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. England and the English -- 2. Women and men -- 3. House and home -- 4. Country life -- 5. Education -- 6. Beliefs -- 7. The court -- 8. London -- 9. Arts and pleasures -- 10. Poverty, crime and punishment -- 11. Over seas -- Coda -- Further reading -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0750921129
- 9780750921121
- 0750926783
- 9780750926782
- 0750924454
- 9780750924450
- OCLC
- ocm41958999
- 41958999
- SCSB-14038017
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library