Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313357404)

Voices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps readers explore the era that produced, among other things, the world's greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare's lifetime, including letters, literature, speeches and polemics, official reports, and descriptive narratives.

Voices of Shakespeare's England includes the works of Shakespeare himself, as well as other poets and playwrights, but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics, religion, economics, social change, and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare's contemporaries to speak in their own voices, it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society, including major historic events in England as well as Scotland, Ireland, the European continent, and even the new world of America.

Author: John Wagner
ISBN-10: 0313357404
ISBN-13: 9780313357404
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2010
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2010 pg. 134
School Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 69
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 38