Author: Great Britain. Office of the Revels
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court, in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I.
Author: Great Britain. Office of the Revels
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Yale Studies in English
Author: Otelia Cromwell
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Thomas Heywood; a Study in the Elizabethan Drama of Everyday Life
Author: Otelia Cromwell
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Category : Manners and customs in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Manners and customs in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Shakespeare's England : an account of the life & manners of his age : V. II = Шекспировская Англия
Author: Walter Raleigh
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043551267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043551267
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Shakespeare's Common Prayers
Author: Daniel Swift
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199977038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, political, and cultural importance. Within its rituals, prescriptions, proscriptions, and expressions were fought the religious wars of the age of Shakespeare. This diminutive book--continuously reformed and revised--was how that age defined itself. In Shakespeare's Common Prayers, Daniel Swift makes dazzling and original use of this foundational text, employing it as an entry-point into the works of England's most celebrated writer. Though commonly neglected as a source for Shakespeare's work, Swift persuasively and conclusively argues that the Book of Common Prayer was absolutely essential to the playwright. It was in the Book's ambiguities and its fierce contestations that Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as compensation for the failure of language to fulfill its promises. What emerges is nothing less than a portrait of Shakespeare at work: absorbing, manipulating, reforming, and struggling with the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift reveals how the greatest writer of the age--of perhaps any age--was influenced and guided by its most important book.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199977038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, political, and cultural importance. Within its rituals, prescriptions, proscriptions, and expressions were fought the religious wars of the age of Shakespeare. This diminutive book--continuously reformed and revised--was how that age defined itself. In Shakespeare's Common Prayers, Daniel Swift makes dazzling and original use of this foundational text, employing it as an entry-point into the works of England's most celebrated writer. Though commonly neglected as a source for Shakespeare's work, Swift persuasively and conclusively argues that the Book of Common Prayer was absolutely essential to the playwright. It was in the Book's ambiguities and its fierce contestations that Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as compensation for the failure of language to fulfill its promises. What emerges is nothing less than a portrait of Shakespeare at work: absorbing, manipulating, reforming, and struggling with the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift reveals how the greatest writer of the age--of perhaps any age--was influenced and guided by its most important book.
The Works of William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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Category : Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category : Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
Author: Sir Sidney Lee
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Discover the life and works of William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language and the pre-eminent dramatist of all time. Sidney Lee, a leading Shakespearean scholar and editor, presents a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's life, from his birth and upbringing in Stratford-upon-Avon, to his successful career as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company in London, and his later retirement in Stratford. Lee illuminates Shakespeare's genius through his plays, sonnets, and other works, showcasing his unparalleled knowledge of human character, wealth of humor, depth of passion, fertility of fancy, and soundness of judgment. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the life and legacy of the Bard of Avon.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Discover the life and works of William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language and the pre-eminent dramatist of all time. Sidney Lee, a leading Shakespearean scholar and editor, presents a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's life, from his birth and upbringing in Stratford-upon-Avon, to his successful career as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company in London, and his later retirement in Stratford. Lee illuminates Shakespeare's genius through his plays, sonnets, and other works, showcasing his unparalleled knowledge of human character, wealth of humor, depth of passion, fertility of fancy, and soundness of judgment. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the life and legacy of the Bard of Avon.
The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: Biographical memoir. Dedication, &c. Commendatory poems. The woman-hater. Thierry and Theodoret. Philaster. The maid's tragedy
Author: Francis Beaumont
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher
Author: Francis Beaumont
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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