LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION:‘Soule of the Age!’:The historical context of Shakespeare's plays PART ONE:SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLANG 1 Religious and philosophical developments Protestantism and scientific thought 2 Government and authority Elizabeth I(1558-1603) James I(1603-0625) 3 Elizabethan and Jacobean society Hierarchy and ‘degree’ 4 ‘Words,words,words’:Shakespeare's English Society and language:form script to print Literacy Vocabulary and grammar The limits of language 5 Plays into print Printing Shakespeare The First Folio(1623) Editing Shakespeare PART TWO:SHAKESPEARE AND THE THEATRE OF HIS TIME 6 Elizabethan and jacobean tragedy The great age of English tragedy Definitions of tragedy The function of tragedy:a Renaissance debate-Sidney and Greville Varieties of tragedy Tragedy and revenge Tragedy and usurpation Tragedy and the morality play 7 shakespeare's theatre ‘Common players in interludes’ ‘The house with the thatched roof’:the Globe Theatre c.1959 ‘One English penny’:theatres and prices in Shakespeare's London The organization of the Globe Theatre 8 Plays and audiences Hamlet in London and The Universities ‘Played at Court’ King Lear and the divided Kingdom Macbeth and the Scottish crown PART THREE:CRITICAL AND ALYSIS:HAMLET(1601)OTHELLO(1604)KING LEAR(C.1605)MACBETH …… Short biographies Further reading Appendix:The theatres of Shakespeare's London Index
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