Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose

British Shakespearean scholar JOHN DOVER WILSON (1881-1969) is best remembered for his explications of the Bard particularly his acclaimed 1935 work What Happens in Hamlet. Here however he takes a rather more oblique approach to enlightening us to the world of Shakespeare gathering together in this 1913 volume writings by contemporaries of the playwrights-some famous some not-that illuminate the artistic society and ordinary life of Elizabethan England. Discover what the firsthand observers of the day thought about: - English snobbery - country sports - festivals and revelry - superstition ghosts and astrology - parenting and children - impressions of London - the plague - playhouses and bear-gardens - the actor and his craft - house and home - rogues and vagabonds - and much much more