‘The Alhambra Palace – Legacy of the Moors’, ‘Romeria Andaluz,’‘Monet the Master of Light’, ‘The Splendour of the Sun King – Louis 14th’, ‘Shakespeare’s Lancashire Connections’, ‘An Elizabethan Progress through the North West of England’, ‘Capri Land of the Syrene,’‘Pompei...
Woman writes letter and prays - Tudor/Elizabethan Era Reenactment Quill and ink by candle light. 00:13 Feather Quill Pen Plastic. 00:27 A calligrapher uses a ruler and mechanical pencil to mark lines under three styles of gothic handwriting, UK. ...
Civility, Honesty and the Identification of the Deserving Poor in Seventeenth-century England The Elizabethan poor laws, codified in 1598 and 1601, institutionalised the ancient moral distinction between the deserving and the undeserving poor. 1 The idea that the idle or the shiftless were unsuitabl...
On dialogues, see Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Reformation Fictions: Polemical Protestant Dialogues in Elizabethan England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011);CrossRef K. J. Wilson, Incomplete Fictions: The Formation of the English Renaissance Dialogue (Washington: The Catholic University of America Pres...
The changing representations of the Dutch and Flemish in late Elizabethan London catalogue a vast variety of exchanges that took place between England and the 'Low Countries' in the early modern period. Documented in parliamentary speeches of 1593, the Dutch Church Libel (1593), Sir Thomas More ...
Hamlet: The Age of Elizabeth - part 34 of 52. Maynard Mack introduces us to the classes and customs of the Elizabethan Age. He discusses the theatre, its conventions and audience, and describes their similarities and differences to those of the modern the ...
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Anonymousis what happens when too many drama nerds watch theX-Files. In this production they take the age old question of scholars, of whether Shakespeare was an actual person or a pseudonym, and answer it in terms of the social-political environment of Elizabethan England (see what these mov...
Wilson, like many others, is uncomfortable with the privileging of the visual over the verbal, indeed with the various modes of Elizabethan dramatic writing that seek to give pleasure to eye or ear in a manner that flaunts the distance from realism, feeling such writing to be somehow naive,...
His work thus provides an opportunity to examine the cultural relationships between England and the Netherlands during the Elizabethan era. Increasingly, scholars are recognizing that the Netherlands played a significant role in the shaping of Elizabethan culture, while in turn England provided a ...