Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times

by R. E. Pritchard

R. E. Pritchard (Introduction)

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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 through a selection of Elizabethan and Jacobean writing taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. Extracts have been chosen from the works of 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), Stubbes (on a Puritan's view of Elizabethan enjoyments), Harsnet and Burton (on...Read more
  • ISBN10 0750926783
  • ISBN13 9780750926782
  • Publish Date 5 February 2001 (first published 18 November 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher The History Press Ltd
  • Imprint Sutton Publishing Ltd
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Language English