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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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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. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
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Print version record. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Homes and haunts -- England.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century -- Sources.
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England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Sources.
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England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century -- Sources.
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England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Sources.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Pritchard, R. E.
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Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Shakespeare's England. Thrupp, Stroud : Sutton Pub., 2003. 0750932112 (pbk.) (DLC)2008277568 |
| ISBN |
9780750952828 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9780750952828 |
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