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Creator
Date
[2019]
Location
Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xv, 407 pages
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 357974
Folger call number: PR2910 .B53 2019
Folger holdings ID: 506205
Folger call number: PR2910 .B53 2019
Folger holdings ID: 506205
Summary
"How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of 'double, double toil and trouble' at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard's era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare's plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare's audiences would have recognized. These moments of recognition often reflected the audience's own experiences of what it was to, as Hamlet says, 'grunt and sweat under a weary life.' Black's clear and sweeping approach seeks to reclaim Shakespeare from the ivory tower and make the plays' histories more accessible to the public for whom the plays were always intended"--
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index Includes index
Contents
The imagination of the age -- The world of the plays -- A dynamic country -- London -- Narrating the past : history plays -- The narrative of politics -- The political imagination -- Social conditions, structures, and assumptions -- Health and medicine -- Cultural trends -- England and Europe -- The wider world : locating prospero -- As we like him
Also known as
Extended title: England in the age of Shakespeare / Jeremy Black
Subjects
Related names
author: Black, Jeremy, 1955-
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616