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Documents of Shakespeare's England

By: John A. Wagner

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Documents of Shakespeare's England

By: John A. Wagner

This engaging collection of over 60 primary document selections sheds light on the personalities, issues, events, and ideas that defined and shaped life in England during the years of Shakespeare's life and career. Documents of Shakespeare's England contains more than 60 primary document selections that will help readers understand all aspects of life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The book is divided into 12 topical sections, such as Politics and Parliament, London Life, and Queen and Court, which offer five document selections each. Each document is preceded by a detailed introduction that puts the selection into historical context and explains why it is important. A general introduction and chronology help readers understand Shakespeare's England in broad terms and see connections, causes, and consequences. Bibliographies of current and useful print and electronic information resources accompany each document, and a general bibliography lists seminal works on Shakespeare's England. This is an engaging and accurate introduction to the England of William Shakespeare told in the words of those who experienced it.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440867429

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A Sentimental Murder

Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century

By: John Brewer

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A Sentimental Murder

Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century

By: John Brewer

One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted to take his own life. Instead he was arrested, tried and hanged. In this fascinating new book, John Brewer, a leading historian of eighteenth-century England, asks what this peculiar little story was all about... Brewer, in tracing Ray's fate through these protean changes in journalism, memoir, and melodrama, offers an unforgettable account of the relationships among the three protagonists and their different places in English society--and assesses the shifting balance between storytelling and fact, past and present that inheres in all history." -- Amazon.com viewed December 7, 2020.

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358

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Macmillan

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0374529779

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9780374529772

Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript

Volume VII

By: John W. Furnivall, Frederick J. Hales

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Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript

Volume VII

By: John W. Furnivall, Frederick J. Hales

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

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3752511087

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Documents of Shakespeare's England

Documents of Shakespeare's England

A Sentimental Murder

A Sentimental Murder

Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript

Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript

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