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Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare's Neighbors

Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare's Neighbors

Jones, Norman

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 1119168236
ISBN13: 9781119168232
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: Mar 29 2019
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Captures the worldviews, concerns, joys, and experiences of people living through the cultural changes in the second half of the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century, Shakespeare's age.

Elizabethans lived through a time of cultural collapse and rejuvenation as the impacts of globalization, the religious Reformation, economic and scientific revolutions, wars, and religious dissent forced them to reformulate their ideas of God, nation, society and self. This well-written, accessible book depicting how Elizabethans perceived reality and acted on their perceptions illustrates Elizabethan life, offering readers well-told stories about the Elizabethan people and the world around them. It defines the older ideas of pre-Elizabethan culture and shows how they were shattered and replaced by a new culture based on the emergence of individual conscience. The book posits that post-Reformation English culture, emphasizing the internalization of religious certainties, embraced skepticism in ways that valued individualism over older communal values.

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