The Elizabethan World Picture
Author : E. M. W. Tillkyard
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN :
The Elizabethan World
Author : Susan Doran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317565797
Book Description
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the explorations of Francis Drake and Walter Ralegh, the establishment of the Protestant Church, the flourishing of commercial theatre and the works of Edmund Spencer, Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare. Encompassing social, political, cultural, religious and economic history, and crossing several disciplines, The Elizabethan World depicts a time of transformation, and a world order in transition. Topics covered include central and local government; political ideas; censorship and propaganda; parliament, the Protestant Church, the Catholic community; social hierarchies; women; the family and household; popular culture, commerce and consumption; urban and rural economies; theatre; art; architecture; intellectual developments ; exploration and imperialism; Ireland, and the Elizabethan wars. The volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular culture, the world of work and social practices fit together in an exciting world of change, and will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Elizabethan period.
Renaissance Rhetoric
Author : Peter Mack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 1993-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1349231444
Book Description
This book provides examples of the best modern scholarship on rhetoric in the renaissance. Lawrence Green, Lisa Jardine, Kees Meerhoff, Dilwyn Knox, Brian Vickers, George Hunter, Peter Mack, David Norbrook and Pat Rubin look at the reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric in the renaissance; the place of rhetoric in Erasmus's career, Melanchthon's teaching, and sixteenth century protestant schools; the rhetoric textbook; the use of rhetoric in Raphael, renaissance drama, Elizabethan romance, and seventeenth century political writing. It will become essential reading for advanced studies in English, rhetoric, art history, history, history of education, history of ideas, political theory, and reformation history.
Daily Life in Elizabethan England
Author : Jeffrey L. Forgeng
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
This book offers an experiential perspective on the lives of Elizabethans—how they worked, ate, and played—with hands-on examples that include authentic music, recipes, and games of the period. Daily Life in Elizabethan England: Second Edition offers a fresh look at Elizabethan life from the perspective of the people who actually lived it. With an abundance of updates based on the most current research, this second edition provides an engaging—and sometimes surprising—picture of what it was like to live during this distant time. Readers will learn, for example, that Elizabethans were diligent recyclers, composting kitchen waste and collecting old rags for papermaking. They will discover that Elizabethans averaged less than 2 inches shorter than their modern British counterparts, and, in a surprising echo of our own age, that many Elizabethan city dwellers relied on carryout meals—albeit because they lacked kitchen facilities. What further sets the book apart is its "hands-on" approach to the past with the inclusion of actual music, games, recipes, and clothing patterns based on primary sources.
Shakespeare's England
Author : R. E Pritchard
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0750952822
Book Description
A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. "Shakespeare's England" brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, 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 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.
William Shakespeare & the Globe
Author : Aliki
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2000-08-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064437221
Book Description
From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare′s world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater. Ages 8+
Women and Their Gardens
Author : Catherine Horwood
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 2012-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1613743408
Book Description
From the golden age in English history to today s gardeners and designers, this volume recognizes women s contributions to gardening in Britain and around the worldspanning more than four centuries. Despite growing vegetables for their kitchens, tending herbs for their medicine cupboards, and teaching other women about the craft before agricultural schools officially existed, women have been mere footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. These pioneers influence on the style of gardens in the present day is illustrated here in a style both accessible and scholarly. Presenting a rare bouquet, this collection shares the stories of more than 200 women who have been involved withgarden design, plant collecting, flower arranging, botanical art, garden writing, and education."
The Elizabethans
Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374147442
Book Description
In this Elizabethan exploration, Wilson follows the stories of privateer Francis Drake, political intriguers like William Cecil and Francis Walsingham; and Renaissance literary geniuses from Sir Philip Sidney to Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.
Tudor and Elizabethan Fashions
Author : Tom Tierney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486413204
Book Description
Forty-five handsome, ready-to-color plates depict styles worn by all social classes in 15th- and 16th-century England -- from woolen tunics of country workers to elegant apparel of Tudor monarchs. Captions.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2012
Category : England
ISBN : 1847921140
Book Description
We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.
