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Shakespeare's England

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16th century
17th century
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contemporaries
death
diaries
diary
elizabethan
england
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extracts
fynes moryson
harsnet
isabella whitney
jacobean
john donne
king james i
letter
letters
life in elizabethan & jacobean england
life in elizabethan and jacobean england
life in tudor times
meditations
nashe
nicholas breton
pamphlet
pamphlets
play
plays
poem
poems
prayer
puritan
seventeenth century
shakespeare
sixteenth century
spirits
stuarts
stubbes
thomas dekker
tobacco
tudor
tudor times
william harrison
william shakespeare
witches
women writers

Product details

  • ISBN 9780750932110
  • Weight: 240g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Apr 2003
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This is an intriguing and fascinating collection of excerpts from some of the best, wittiest and most unusual sixteenth and seventeenth century writing.

Shakespeare's England brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a fascinating picture of the age, it includes extracts from a wide range of writing, 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 women 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.
About
R.E. PRITCHARD was formerly a lecturer in English at Keele University. He has also edited Poetry by English Women, The Sidney Psalms, Lady Mary Wroth and Dickens's England.