Voices of Shakespeare's England

Voices of Shakespeare''s England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character personalities and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.Voices of Shakespeare''s England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps readers explore the era that produced among other things the world''s greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare''s lifetime including letters literature speeches and polemics official reports and descriptive narratives. Voices of Shakespeare''s England includes the works of Shakespeare himself as well as other poets and playwrights but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics religion economics social change and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare''s contemporaries to speak in their own voices it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society including major historic events in England as well as Scotland Ireland the European continent and even the new world of America.