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  title info:
    title: England in the age of Shakespeare
  name:
    name part: Black, Jeremy
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 407 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of 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.
  note: Jeremy Black.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Homes and haunts
    geographic: England
  subject:
    geographic: England
    topic: Social life and customs
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    geographic: England
    topic: Social life and customs
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    geographic: England
    topic: Intellectual life
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    geographic: England
    topic: Intellectual life
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
  classification: PR2910 .B53 2019
  classification: 822.3/3
  identifier: 9780253042309
  identifier: 0253042305
  identifier: 9780253042316
  identifier: 0253042313
  identifier: 9780253042347
  identifier: 2019012150
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190322
    record change date: 20191021080829.0
    record identifier: in00003988200