Shakespeare's World: Background Readings in the English Renaissance

by G.M. Pinciss (Other), 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.

267 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989