Shakespeare's World

by Roger Lockyer (Editor), Roger Lockyer (Editor)

Substantial excerpts from a broad range of texts, providing an overview of the intellectual context of Shakespeare's work. The arrangement is by topic, such as religion, science, monarchy. The authors include Montaigne, John Dee, Machiavelli, James I. Castiglione, and others.

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1990

About the author

A specialist in the history of Tudor & Stuart England, Roger Lockyer was reader in history at Royal Holloway, University of London.