Shakespeare's Life and World

This compilation gathers contemporary records, extracts from the plays and poems, and accounts of Elizabethan and Jacobean England in order to reconstruct the circumstances of Shakespeare's working life. Typical matter includes Stratford family and schooling, the London playhouses, patronage, the plague years, and daily habits of dress, food, and law. Documents sit beside passages that show how the stage used court, tavern, and battlefield. There is no single narrative voice. The book is a documentary reader of a theatre culture, not a new biography in continuous prose and not a complete edition of the plays.

Quarter bound in buckram with printed paper sides. Mottled cream slipcase titled in brown. Presentation volume for 2005.