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 playwright's-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

Life in Shakespeare's England;: A book of Elizabethan prose

Literature & Fiction

WILSON, JOHN DOVER

Dramas & Plays

Barnes&Noble

<p>John Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has been widely translated. Hamlet has excited more curiosity and aroused more debate than any other play ever written. Is Hamlet really mad? Does he really see his father's ghost, or is it an illusion? Is the ghost good or bad? What does it all mean? Dover Wilson brings out the significance of each part of the complex action, against the background. His analysis of the play emphasises Shakespeare's dramatic art and shows how the play must be seen and heard to be understood. This is a readable, entertaining and scholarly book.</p>

What Happens in Hamlet

Cambridge University Press

Physical description; 320 p., [9] p of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Subject; Wilson, John Dover 1881-1969.

Milestones on the Dover road

FABER

The penultimate volume in the 8-volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare's later Comedies - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL and MEASURE FOR MEASURE. The beautifully produced, single-column text of the plays, with the Signet footnotes, is supplemented with bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Professor Tony Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in content. The seven plays bought in Penguin would cost 23. 20, while the Cambridge and Oxford Classics editions cost 33. 25 and 27. 50 respectively.

The Comedies / The Histories

Cambridge University Presses

Life in Shakespeare's England; a Book of Elizabethan Prose

World Literature

Legare Street Press

John Lily

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Nabu Press

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

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Life in Shakespeare's England

Europe

Hesperides Press

<p>As the full titles of authorities used are to be found in the list at the end, I have referred to works in the footnotes simply by the name of their author, while in quoting from Euphues I have throughout employed Prof. Arber's reprint. Should errors be discovered in the text I must plead in excuse that, owing to circumstances, the book had to be passed very quickly through the press. JOHN DOVER WILSON. Holmleigh, Shelford, August, 1905.</p>

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Life in Shakespeare's England;: A book of Elizabethan prose

What Happens in Hamlet

Milestones on the Dover road

The Comedies / The Histories

Life in Shakespeare's England; a Book of Elizabethan Prose

John Lily

John Lily

Life in Shakespeare's England

John Lyly

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