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England in the Age of Shakespeare

Name: England in the Age of Shakespeare
Brand: Indiana University Press
SKU: 9780253042316
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Contributors:

Jeremy Black

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, History

Book Subcategory:

Shakespeare, Europe, Modern

Book Topic:

Great Britain, 17th Century

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Release Date:

2019-07-19

ISBN 13:

9780253042316

Weight:

1.2 lbs

Size:

8.90 x 6.30 x 1.10 inches

Pages:

428

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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.

About the Author

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books, including Charting the Past: The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England; London: A History; and Mapping Shakespeare: An Exploration of Shakespeare's Worlds through Maps.

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