02576nam 2200445 450 991081140390332120220921201431.097802530423230-253-04233-X(CKB)4100000008482825(MiAaPQ)EBC5789194(MiAaPQ)EBC6126128(NjHacI)994100000008482825(EXLCZ)99410000000848282520220921d2019 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEngland in the Age of Shakespeare /Jeremy BlackBloomington, Indiana :Indiana University Press,2019.1 online resource (xv, 407 pages)Includes index.0-253-04230-5 "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".English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700EnglandSocial life and customs16th centuryEnglandSocial life and customs17th centuryEnglandIntellectual life16th centuryEnglandIntellectual life17th centuryEnglish literature822.3/3Black Jeremy1955-144601NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910811403903321England in the Age of Shakespeare3955611UNINA