Voices Of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts Of Elizabethan Daily Life

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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Copyright

2010

ISBN13

9780313357411

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9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

Men and women, kings and commoners, heroes and villains and fools ... William Shakespeare was a master of authentic voices across a wide range of historical eras. But what about the voices of the people of his own time? What do Shakespeare's fellow citizens of Elizabethan England have to tell us about life in that extraordinary era?
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Shakespeare's England.
Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents.
Chronology of English History from the Birth of Elizabeth I to the Death of William Shakespeare, 1533–1616.
1: Society and Economy.
2: An Englishman Claims Land in Elizabethan Ireland: The Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew (1568).
3: The Sword of Elizabethan Education: Roger Ascham's The Schoolmaster (1570).
4: English Women: Accounts of Male English Observers (1550, 1577).
5: English Women: Accounts of Male Foreign Observers (1575, 1585).
6: High Rents and Hard Times for Land Tenants: William Harrison's Description of England (1577).
7: The Cost of Defending the Realm: The Forced Loan of 1588.
8: The Elizabethan Underworld: Robert Greene's Cony-Catching Pamphlets (1592).
9: The Dangers of Lengthy Leases for Land Tenants: Thomas Wilson's The State of England, Anno Dom. 1600 (1600).
10: A Piece of Elizabethan Self-Promotion: William Kempe's Nine Days Wonder (1600).
11: The Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601.
12: Church and State.
13: The Powers of Parliament: Sir Thomas Smith's De Republica Anglorum (1565).
14: Government Control of the Printing Press: Star Chamber Censorship Ordinances (1566, 1586) and Philip Stubbs’ Comments on Censorship (1593).
15: Who May Summon Parliament and Why: John Hooker's Order and Usage (1571).
16: Protecting Queen and Realm from Catholic Plots: Letter of the Bishop of London to Lord Burghley (1572).
17: An Illegal Celebration of the Catholic Mass: Letters from the Bishop of London to Lord Burghley and the Earl of Leicester (1573).
18: Criticizing the Queen: Peter Wentworth's Speech in the House of Commons (1576).
19: A Description of the New World: The First Expedition to Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia (1584).
20: The Destruction of the Spanish
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