The Age of Shakespeare
by Boris Ford (Editor)
Pelican Guide to English Literature (2), The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (2)
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This volume covers the period of Shakespeare's lifetime. It contains a long general survey of the English literary renaissance, and also an account of the social context of literature in the period. Then there follow a number of essays which consider in detail the work and importance of individual dramatists, poets and prose-writers, but above all the dram atists, for this was their age. Five of the essays are devoted to Shakespeare's plays alone. Finally, this volume contains an appendix show more giving short author-biographies and, in each case, standard editions of authors' works, critical commentaries and lists of books further study and reference. show lessTags
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Covers the period of Shakespeare's lifetime with a long survey of the English literary renaissance and the social context of literature. Includes essays on individual dramatists, poets, and prose-writers — five essays devoted to Shakespeare's plays alone — plus an appendix of author biographies and reading lists.
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- Canonical title
- The Age of Shakespeare
- Original publication date
- 1955 (First Edition) (First Edition); 1956 (reprinted with revisions) (reprinted with revisions); 1969 (reprinted with revisions to Part IV) (reprinted with revisions to Part IV)
- People/Characters
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626; Francis Beaumont; George Chapman; Samuel Daniel; Thomas Dekker; John Donne (show all 26); Michael Drayton; John Fletcher; Robert Greene; Thomas Heywood; Ben Jonson; Thomas Kyd; Thomas Lodge; Niccolò Machiavelli; Christopher Marlowe; John Marston; Philip Massinger; Thomas Middleton; Thomas Nashe; George Peele; Sir Walter Raleigh; William Shakespeare; Sir Philip Sidney; Edmund Spenser; Cyril Tourneur; John Webster
- Important places
- Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark, London, England, UK
- First words
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
In introducing this Guide to English Literature, it is as well to remember that this is the age of the Digest and the Headline, of the Comic and the Tabloid, of the Bestseller and the Month's Ma... (show all)sterpiece: an age when a 'deep-seated spiritual vulgarity... lies at the heart of our civilization' in the words of the novelist, L. H. Myers.
THE SOCIAL SETTING
L. G. Salingar
Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge
The Nation and the Drama, 1558-1625
Europe in the sixteenth century was dominated by kings. In the Middle ages, culture ... (show all)and to a large extent the forms of government had been moulded by the Church of Rome.
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 820.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
- LCC
- PR83 .N49 — Language and Literature English English Literature
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- 23
