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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Sutton Pub Ltd
Publication date
March 1, 2000
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780750921121
ISBN-10
0750921129
Dimensions
1 by 6.75 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.60 lbs.
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Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$34.95
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Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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, with a selection of accounts of Elizabethan and Jacobean life taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. Extracts have been taken from 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), Stubbs (with a Puritan's 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. Also included are accounts of theatre-going, May Day celebrations, Queen Elizabeth at court, the place of women, education, garden books and herbals, clothes, food, drink and religion. The extracts are organized thematically, each section having an introduction reflecting modern historical research. A miscellany of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual of 16th and 17th-century writing, this book aims to bring to life the variety, the energy and the often harsh reality of the society that produced England's greatest writer.
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Hardcover
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from Sutton Pub Ltd (March 1, 2000)
9780750921121 | details & prices | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $34.95
About: What was life like in Shakespeare's time - or, what did people then say it was like?
About: What was life like in Shakespeare's time - or, what did people then say it was like?
Paperback
from History Pr Ltd (July 1, 2003)
9780750932110 | details & prices | 256 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $24.95
from Sutton Pub Ltd (March 1, 2001); titled "Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times"
9780750926782 | details & prices | 252 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 0.50 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $19.95
About: This lively collection from some of Shakespeare's contemporaries including Elizabeth I, Raleigh, Bacon and Donne, presents a vivid picture of English life during the great bard's life and offers first-hand observations on a nation in the midst of building an empire.
About: This lively collection from some of Shakespeare's contemporaries including Elizabeth I, Raleigh, Bacon and Donne, presents a vivid picture of English life during the great bard's life and offers first-hand observations on a nation in the midst of building an empire.
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