Documents of Shakespeare's England
byJohn A. Wagner, PhD, has taught classes in British and American history at Arizona State University and Phoenix College.
20191031
ABC-CLIO
Pages | 328 |
Topics | Anglican Church;Elizabethan Activity in America;Elizabethan Ireland;English Roman Catholics;English Royal Court;English Theatre;Literature and Poetry;Parliament;Puritans;Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots;Shakespeare's Life and Works;World History |
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This engaging collection of over 60 primary document selections sheds light on the personalities, issues, events, and ideas that defined and shaped life in England during the years of Shakespeare's life and career.
• Offers readers an understanding of the social, political, religious, economic, and cultural dimensions of England during the years in which William Shakespeare lived and worked• Includes more than 60 important and engaging primary document selections
• Provides a detailed Chronology and a useful general bibliography as well as bibliographies specific to individual documents
• Features a detailed general Introduction putting the broad topic of Shakespeare's England into context as well as introductions specific to each document selection, putting that selection into context
• Focuses on the period that many modern Shakespearean and Elizabethan movies (e.g., Mary, Queen of Scots), plays, and television series (e.g., Reign) depict
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Documents of Shakespeare's England
Author(s): Wagner, John;Contributors: Wagner, John;Abstract:This engaging collection of over 60 primary document selections sheds light on the personalities, issues, events, and ideas that defined and shaped life in England during the years of Shakespeare's life and career.
• Offers readers an understanding of the social, political, religious, economic, and cultural dimensions of England during the years in which William Shakespeare lived and worked• Includes more than 60 important and engaging primary document selections
• Provides a detailed Chronology and a useful general bibliography as well as bibliographies specific to individual documents
• Features a detailed general Introduction putting the broad topic of Shakespeare's England into context as well as introductions specific to each document selection, putting that selection into context
• Focuses on the period that many modern Shakespearean and Elizabethan movies (e.g., Mary, Queen of Scots), plays, and television series (e.g., Reign) depict
SortTitle: documents of shakespeare's englandAuthor Info:John A. WagnerauthorJohn A. Wagner, PhD, has taught classes in British and American history at Arizona State University and Phoenix College.
eISBN-13: 9781440867422Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440867422.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440867415Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 328Publication Date: 20191031Series: Eyewitness to History- Cover Cover11
- Half Title i2
- Title iii4
- Copyright iv5
- Dedication v6
- Contents vii8
- Preface xi12
- Acknowledgments xv16
- Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents xvii18
- Introduction: Shakespeare's England xix20
- Chronology xxxiii34
- Chapter 1 Society and Family 150
- 1. "It Was Ordained for a Remedy against Sin": The Marriage Ceremony as Mandated by the Book of Common Prayer (1559) 150
- 2. "Give Yourself to Be Merry": Sir Henry Sidney's Advice to His Son, Philip Sidney (c. 1566) 655
- 3. "They Have Invented Such Strange Fashions": Philip Stubbes's Description of Elizabethan Barbers (1583) 958
- 4. "Sorrows Draw Not the Dead, to Life, But the Living to Death": Sir Walter Raleigh's Letter of Comfort to Sir Robert Cecil upon the Death of Cecil's Wife (1597) 1160
- 5. "One Sharp and Discrete Word Is Sufficient": John Dod and Robert Cleaver on Proper Household Relations between Husbands and Wives, Masters and Servants (1598) 1463
- Chapter 2 Economy and Work 2170
- 6. "That Certain Abuses Might Be Suppressed": Regulating the Trade of Cloth in the Town of Beverley (1561) 2170
- 7. "A Convenient Proportion of Wages": Parliament Enacts a Uniform Labor Code—the Statute of Artificers (1563) 2473
- 8. "How Our Maltbugs Lug at This Liquor": William Harrison on Grain Buying in Country Markets (1577) 2877
- 9. "They Will Not Buy Any Thing of Our Country-Men": The Economic Impact of Immigration on the London Economy (1593) 3180
- 10. "Is Not Bread There?": The Anger over Monopolies (1601) 3584
- Chapter 3 Politics and Parliament 3988
- 11. "A Place of Free Speech": Freedom of Debate in Parliament (1562, 1576) 3988
- 12. "His Word Is a Law": Sir Thomas Smith Describes the Power and Position of the English Monarch (c. 1565) 4291
- 13. "A Coronet on Her Head": John Hooker's Account of the Dissolution of a Session of Parliament (1571) 4695
- 14. "The Place of Secretary Is Dreadful": William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Describes the Duties and Requirements of the Office of Secretary of State (c. 1571) 5099
- 15. "He Is the Eye and the Head of the Whole Commonweal": John Hooker's Description of the Duties of the Mayor and City Recorder of Exeter (1584) 52101
- Chapter 4 Queen and Court 57106
- 16. "Comely Rather Than Handsome": Descriptions of the Young Princess and the Aging Queen (1557, 1598) 57106
- 17. "A Fresh Delicate Harmony of Flutes": The Queen on Progress—Robert, Earl of Leicester, Entertains the Queen at Kenilworth Castle (1575) 61110
- 18. "In His Clown's Apparel": The Comic Actor Richard Tarlton All about the Court (1580s) 64113
- 19. "Being Much Moved to Be So Challenged in Public": Queen Elizabeth Schools the Malapert Polish Ambassador (1597) 67116
- 20. "I Have Reigned with Your Loves": The Queen's Valedictory—the "Golden Speech" (1601) 71120
- Chapter 5 Anglicans, Puritans, and Catholics 75124
- 21. "The Queen's Highness Is the Only Supreme Governor of This Realm": Framing the Anglican Religious Settlement (1559) 75124
- 22. "Elizabeth, the Pretended Queen of England": Pope Pius V Excommunicates and Deposes Queen Elizabeth—and the Consequences for English Catholics (1570, 1582) 79128
- 23. "To Wash His Hands in the Protestants' Blood": News of a Catholic Plot to Assassinate the Queen and Bring in the Spanish (1570) 84133
- 24. "Brought Many to Great Disobedience": The Bishops Wrestle with Growing Puritan Activity in the Counties (1573, 1581) 87136
- 25. "Which We Do Barbarously Call Sunday": Puritans Petition the Queen in the Commons for a Church Organized Along Presbyterian Lines (1585) 91140
- Chapter 6 Literature, Plays, and Poetry 97146
- 26. "I Aske of God a Vengeance on Thy Bones": Historical Complaint Literature—The Poetry of A Mirror for Magistrates (1563) 97146
- 27. "None More Witty Than Euphues": John Lyly Writes Popular Elizabethan Romance Novels (1579, 1580) 101150
- 28. "In the Defence of That My Unelected Vocation": Sir Philip Sidney Defends Poetry and the Theater against Their Critics (c. 1583) 105154
- 29. "Why Made You Night to Cover Sin?": Thomas Kyd Writes Popular Elizabethan Tragedy (1592) 109158
- 30. "I Fill'd the Gaols with Bankrupts in a Year": The Popular and Influential Plays of Christopher Marlowe (1592, 1594) 112161
- Chapter 7 William Shakespeare's Life and Works 119168
- 31. "I Love What Others Do Abhor": The Sonnets (c. 1576, 1609) 119168
- 32. "Mine Arm Is Like a Blasted Sapling": William Shakespeare and His Sources—the Second Edition of Holinshed's Chronicle (1587) and Richard III (c. 1592-1593) 122171
- 33. "For the Recreation of Our Loving Subjects": King James I Licenses William Shakespeare's Theatrical Company (1603) 127176
- 34. "My Second Best Bed": William Shakespeare's Will (1616) 130179
- 35. "He Was a Happy Imitator of Nature": The First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Works (1623) 134183
- Chapter 8 London Life 139188
- 36. "And Never More Me Name": Poet Isabella Whitney Bids a Mocking Farewell to London (1573) 139188
- 37. "My Purse in This Fray Is Taken Out of My Pocket": The Elizabethan Underworld as Described in Robert Greene's Cony-Catching Pamphlets (1592) 144193
- 38. "Justice Somewhere Is Corrupted": Thomas Nashe Inveighs against the Stews and Strumpets of London (1593) 148197
- 39. "The Said High Street Stretched Straight to Ludgate": John Stow Describes the Wards of Elizabethan London (1600) 152201
- 40. "Salute at Parting No Man but by the Name of Sir": Thomas Dekker's Advice on Walking Home Late through London (1609) 156205
- Chapter 9 Scotland and the Scottish Queen 159208
- 41. "How Can That Doctrine Be of God?": John Knox's Account of His Meeting with Queen Mary of Scotland (1561) 159208
- 42. "No Man Said So Much as Amen": A Description of the Marriage of Mary of Scotland and Henry, Lord Darnley (1565) 164213
- 43. "He Had in His Body above Sixty Wounds": The Murder of David Rizzo and Its Immediate Aftermath (1566) 167216
- 44. "So Soon as the Said Design Shall Be Executed": Queen Mary Endorses Babington's Plot—and Thereby Seals Her Fate (1586) 170219
- 45. "Show You Worthy the Place": Queen Elizabeth Advises James VI of Scotland on How to Be a King (1592) 174223
- Chapter 10 Spain and the Armada 177226
- 46. "Pitiful Miseries and Horrible Calamities": Queen Elizabeth Justifies Her Military Intervention in the Low Countries (1585) 177226
- 47. "This Hath Bred a Great Fear in the Spaniard": Sir Francis Drake Describes His Raid on the Spanish Port of Cadiz (1587) 181230
- 48. "Furnished with Armor and Weapon Mete for Your Calling": The Council Prepares for Possible Spanish Invasion (1588) 184233
- 49. "Your Highness's Enemies Are Many": Sir Francis Drake Describes the English Fleet's Encounters with the Spanish Armada (1588) 186235
- 50. "The Fight Was Very Terrible": An Account of the English Raid on Cadiz (1596) 190239
- Chapter 11 Ireland and the English 195244
- 51. "Such Lamentable Cries and Doleful Complaints": Lord Deputy Sir Henry Sidney's Shocking Account of Conditions in Parts of Ireland (1567) 195244
- 52. "All Things Are at a Hard Hand": A Scarcity of Money and Merchandise in Elizabethan Ireland (1568) 197246
- 53. "Who Can Keep His Living?": Three Accounts of the Storming of Clogrennan Castle (1569) 200249
- 54. "Reducing That Savage Nation to Better Government and Civility": English Views of the Evils of Irish Government and Society (1595) 203252
- 55. "That All Irishmen May Freely Travel": The Demands of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, for Irish Control of a Catholic Ireland (1599) 207256
- Chapter 12 America and the English 211260
- 56. "We Would Deal Friendly with Them": George Best's Description of the Frobisher Expedition's Encounters with the Inuit (1577) 211260
- 57. "To Adventure as Becometh Men": An Account of Newfoundland by a Member of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Expedition (1583) 214263
- 58. "Shall from Time to Time Adventure Themselves": Sir Walter Raleigh's Title to Virginia (1584) 218267
- 59. "After the Manner of the Golden Age": A Report on Virginia by the Leaders of Sir Walter Raleigh's First Expedition to America (1584) 222271
- 60. "Matter for All Sorts and States of Men to Work Upon": Richard Hakluyt's Reasons for Establishing English Colonies in America (1584) 225274
- Bibliography 229278
- Index 253302