Focusing on the Elizabethan era in England, a period from about 1550 to 1603, this title shows various examples of the fascinating clothing worn by everyone from the noblemen and middle classes to the countryfolk and military men. England during the time of Queen Elizabeth I is well-known to students as the time of Shakespeareâ s plays and other courtly drama. Photographs and illustrations from popular plays and movies show vivid examples of Elizabethan dress.

It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. The Occult Philosophy of the Elizabethan Age was her last book, and in it she condensed many aspects of her wide learning to present a clear, penetrating, and, above all, accessible survey of the occult movements of the Renaissance, highlighting the work of John Dee, Giordano Bruno, and other key esoteric figures.

From Up to Down: In this picture we can see the most influental dramatist of Elizabethan era. On top is George Chapman while in next row are presented Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher then comes Ben Johnson followed by Thomas Middleton Philip Massinger and the portrait ends with James Shirley. The book consists of 881 pages.

 

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In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare’s plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater

• Introduces students to Shakespeare's plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.
• Focuses on the material conditions of playing and of playgoing.
• Covers venues, audiences, actors, society, government and regulation.
• Each topic is considered in relation to a selection of Shakespeare's plays.
• Shows students how the plays and the context in which they were produced illuminate one another.

Shakespeare’s Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.

• A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.
  
• Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation.
  
• Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
  
• A general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious history of the time.
  
• Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate.
  
• Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation.