John Wagner

Documents of Shakespeare's England

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ABC-CLIO
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781440867415
• ISBN-10: 1440867410
• Artikelnr.: 56788010

Autorenporträt

John lives with his wife, Mary in Wisconsin. He enjoys spending time with his four adult children, playing golf, listening to sermons and Bible studies on the radio, and talking with others about the peace that can be found in Jesus regardless of the challenges life may bring.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents
Introduction: Shakespeare's England Chronology Chapter 1 Society and Family
1. "It Was Ordained for a Remedy against Sin": The Marriage Ceremony as
Mandated by the Book of Common Prayer (1559) 2. "Give Yourself to Be
Merry": Sir Henry Sidney's Advice to His Son, Philip Sidney (c. 1566) 3.
"They Have Invented Such Strange Fashions": Philip Stubbes's Description of
Elizabethan Barbers (1583) 4. "Sorrows Draw Not the Dead, to Life, But the
Living to Death": Sir Walter Raleigh's Letter of Comfort to Sir Robert
Cecil upon the Death of Cecil's Wife (1597) 5. "One Sharp and Discrete Word
Is Sufficient": John Dod and Robert Cleaver on Proper Household Relations
between Husbands and Wives, Masters and Servants (1598) Chapter 2 Economy
and Work 6. "That Certain Abuses Might Be Suppressed": Regulating the Trade
of Cloth in the Town of Beverley (1561) 7. "A Convenient Proportion of
Wages": Parliament Enacts a Uniform Labor Code-the Statute of Artificers
(1563) 8. "How Our Maltbugs Lug at This Liquor": William Harrison on Grain
Buying in Country Markets (1577) 9. "They Will Not Buy Any Thing of Our
Country-Men": The Economic Impact of Immigration on the London Economy
(1593) 10. "Is Not Bread There?": The Anger over Monopolies (1601) Chapter
3 Politics and Parliament 11. "A Place of Free Speech": Freedom of Debate
in Parliament (1562, 1576) 12. "His Word Is a Law": Sir Thomas Smith
Describes the Power and Position of the English Monarch (c. 1565) 13. "A
Coronet on Her Head": John Hooker's Account of the Dissolution of a Session
of Parliament (1571) 14. "The Place of Secretary Is Dreadful": William
Cecil, Lord Burghley, Describes the Duties and Requirements of the Office
of Secretary of State (c. 1571) 15. "He Is the Eye and the Head of the
Whole Commonweal": John Hooker's Description of the Duties of the Mayor and
City Recorder of Exeter (1584) Chapter 4 Queen and Court 16. "Comely Rather
Than Handsome": Descriptions of the Young Princess and the Aging Queen
(1557, 1598) 17. "A Fresh Delicate Harmony of Flutes": The Queen on
Progress-Robert, Earl of Leicester, Entertains the Queen at Kenilworth
Castle (1575) 18. "In His Clown's Apparel": The Comic Actor Richard Tarlton
All about the Court (1580s) 19. "Being Much Moved to Be So Challenged in
Public": Queen Elizabeth Schools the Malapert Polish Ambassador (1597) 20.
"I Have Reigned with Your Loves": The Queen's Valedictory-the "Golden
Speech" (1601) Chapter 5 Anglicans, Puritans, and Catholics 21. "The
Queen's Highness Is the Only Supreme Governor of This Realm": Framing the
Anglican Religious Settlement (1559) 22. "Elizabeth, the Pretended Queen of
England": Pope Pius V Excommunicates and Deposes Queen Elizabeth-and the
Consequences for English Catholics (1570, 1582) 23. "To Wash His Hands in
the Protestants' Blood": News of a Catholic Plot to Assassinate the Queen
and Bring in the Spanish (1570) 24. "Brought Many to Great Disobedience":
The Bishops Wrestle with Growing Puritan Activity in the Counties (1573,
1581) 25. "Which We Do Barbarously Call Sunday": Puritans Petition the
Queen in the Commons for a Church Organized Along Presbyterian Lines (1585)
Chapter 6 Literature, Plays, and Poetry 26. "I Aske of God a Vengeance on
Thy Bones": Historical Complaint Literature-The Poetry of A Mirror for
Magistrates (1563) 27. "None More Witty Than Euphues": John Lyly Writes
Popular Elizabethan Romance Novels (1579, 1580) 28. "In the Defence of That
My Unelected Vocation": Sir Philip Sidney Defends Poetry and the Theater
against Their Critics (c. 1583) 29. "Why Made You Night to Cover Sin?":
Thomas Kyd Writes Popular Elizabethan Tragedy (1592) 30. "I Fill'd the
Gaols with Bankrupts in a Year": The Popular and Influential Plays of
Christopher Marlowe (1592, 1594) Chapter 7 William Shakespeare's Life and
Works 31. "I Love What Others Do Abhor": The Sonnets (c. 1576, 1609) 32.
"Mine Arm Is Like a Blasted Sapling": William Shakespeare and His
Sources-the Second Edition of Holinshed's Chronicle (1587) and Richard III
(c. 1592-1593) 33. "For the Recreation of Our Loving Subjects": King James
I Licenses William Shakespeare's Theatrical Company (1603) 34. "My Second
Best Bed": William Shakespeare's Will (1616) 35. "He Was a Happy Imitator
of Nature": The First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Works (1623) Chapter 8
London Life 36. "And Never More Me Name": Poet Isabella Whitney Bids a
Mocking Farewell to London (1573) 37. "My Purse in This Fray Is Taken Out
of My Pocket": The Elizabethan Underworld as Described in Robert Greene's
Cony-Catching Pamphlets (1592) 38. "Justice Somewhere Is Corrupted": Thomas
Nashe Inveighs against the Stews and Strumpets of London (1593) 39. "The
Said High Street Stretched Straight to Ludgate": John Stow Describes the
Wards of Elizabethan London (1600) 40. "Salute at Parting No Man but by the
Name of Sir": Thomas Dekker's Advice on Walking Home Late through London
(1609) Chapter 9 Scotland and the Scottish Queen 41. "How Can That Doctrine
Be of God?": John Knox's Account of His Meeting with Queen Mary of Scotland
(1561) 42. "No Man Said So Much as Amen": A Description of the Marriage of
Mary of Scotland and Henry, Lord Darnley (1565) 43. "He Had in His Body
above Sixty Wounds": The Murder of David Rizzo and Its Immediate Aftermath
(1566) 44. "So Soon as the Said Design Shall Be Executed": Queen Mary
Endorses Babington's Plot-and Thereby Seals Her Fate (1586) 45. "Show You
Worthy the Place": Queen Elizabeth Advises James VI of Scotland on How to
Be a King (1592) Chapter 10 Spain and the Armada 46. "Pitiful Miseries and
Horrible Calamities": Queen Elizabeth Justifies Her Military Intervention
in the Low Countries (1585) 47. "This Hath Bred a Great Fear in the
Spaniard": Sir Francis Drake Describes His Raid on the Spanish Port of
Cadiz (1587) 48. "Furnished with Armor and Weapon Mete for Your Calling":
The Council Prepares for Possible Spanish Invasion (1588) 49. "Your
Highness's Enemies Are Many": Sir Francis Drake Describes the English
Fleet's Encounters with the Spanish Armada (1588) 50. "The Fight Was Very
Terrible": An Account of the English Raid on Cadiz (1596) Chapter 11
Ireland and the English 51. "Such Lamentable Cries and Doleful Complaints":
Lord Deputy Sir Henry Sidney's Shocking Account of Conditions in Parts of
Ireland (1567) 52. "All Things Are at a Hard Hand": A Scarcity of Money and
Merchandise in Elizabethan Ireland (1568) 53. "Who Can Keep His Living?":
Three Accounts of the Storming of Clogrennan Castle (1569) 54. "Reducing
That Savage Nation to Better Government and Civility": English Views of the
Evils of Irish Government and Society (1595) 55. "That All Irishmen May
Freely Travel": The Demands of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, for Irish
Control of a Catholic Ireland (1599) Chapter 12 America and the English
56. "We Would Deal Friendly with Them": George Best's Description of the
Frobisher Expedition's Encounters with the Inuit (1577) 57. "To Adventure
as Becometh Men": An Account of Newfoundland by a Member of Sir Humphrey
Gilbert's Expedition (1583) 58. "Shall from Time to Time Adventure
Themselves": Sir Walter Raleigh's Title to Virginia (1584) 59. "After the
Manner of the Golden Age": A Report on Virginia by the Leaders of Sir
Walter Raleigh's First Expedition to America (1584) 60. "Matter for All
Sorts and States of Men to Work Upon": Richard Hakluyt's Reasons for
Establishing English Colonies in America (1584) Bibliography Index