A History of Seventeenth-Century English LiteratureJohn Wiley & Sons, 16 dec 2013 - 480 pagina's A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690.
Thomas Corns is a major international authority on Milton, the Caroline Court, and the political literature of the English Civil War and the Interregnum. |
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... London drama companies, but inevitably those deaths closed offsome aspects ofElizabethan culture,despite the continuities, as surely as otherswith different aesthetic assumption anddifferent strengthsmoved the tradition on. Yetlate ...
... London drama companies, but inevitably those deaths closed offsome aspects ofElizabethan culture,despite the continuities, as surely as otherswith different aesthetic assumption anddifferent strengthsmoved the tradition on. Yetlate ...
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... London were generally higher than elsewhere. Ratesimprove overthe century, although, based on a simple test of whether people madea mark or signed their name, literacy levels were low.By 1640, 20per cent of women and 40per centof men ...
... London were generally higher than elsewhere. Ratesimprove overthe century, although, based on a simple test of whether people madea mark or signed their name, literacy levels were low.By 1640, 20per cent of women and 40per centof men ...
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... London book trade because there were no appropriate presses elsewhere.Moreover, aprint culture, with habitual readers seekingout literary publications froma rangeofsuppliers, onlydeveloped in the metropolis. Only London could sustain ...
... London book trade because there were no appropriate presses elsewhere.Moreover, aprint culture, with habitual readers seekingout literary publications froma rangeofsuppliers, onlydeveloped in the metropolis. Only London could sustain ...
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... London's theatres. Certainly, thesuburbs contained someof thepoorest areas, and plague lingered longer and took morevictimsthan in theCityitself. But here, too, manufacturing industry flourished outside the control of the guilds, and ...
... London's theatres. Certainly, thesuburbs contained someof thepoorest areas, and plague lingered longer and took morevictimsthan in theCityitself. But here, too, manufacturing industry flourished outside the control of the guilds, and ...
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... London (Schoenbaum 1975: 158). Playwrights had no rightto theirworkonce they had delivered it tothe companies thathad bought or commissioned it. (Shakespeare stands outside these generalizations, since hewasa partowner ofthe company ...
... London (Schoenbaum 1975: 158). Playwrights had no rightto theirworkonce they had delivered it tothe companies thathad bought or commissioned it. (Shakespeare stands outside these generalizations, since hewasa partowner ofthe company ...
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March 1629 to April | |
The Making of the Caroline Court | |
Poetry andProseRomance NonFictional Prose | |
From Manuscript to Print Plays and Players | |
April 1640 | |
May 1660 | |
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