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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 September 2010
      20 July 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511693496
      9781108002615
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511693496
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      Dimensions:
      (198 x 129 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 328 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    Entertaining and informative, this 1956 anthology paints a vivid picture of the world in which Shakespeare lived. Using the playwright's life as the framework – his birth, his education, his move to London, his life in theatre, his death – the book uses selected extracts from key Elizabethan publications to embody the atmosphere of this period. From sport to superstition, from festival to fashion, from the plague to playhouses, the significant features of the age are described through its prose, providing the reader with first-hand accounts of the conditions in which Shakespeare's masterpieces were created. All chapters are prefaced with illustrative Shakespearean quotations; the collection representing a commentary on the work as well as the life of Shakespeare. All texts have been modernised to assist the reader, and a glossary is included which explains names, unfamiliar words and difficult passages.

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