London in the Age of Shakespeare

by Lawrence Manley

London in the age of Shakespeare was one of the largest and most important cities of Europe. Poets and poetasters, rhetoricians, and preachers were able to use the city as an object for displays of technical rhetoric in ballads, bawdy jests, sermons, and tales. There is today an unparalleled wealth of contemporary descriptions which give us a vivid picture of what life was like in London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Professor Manley...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271004452
• ISBN13: 9780271004457
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"