Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 285
Shakespeare and other playwrights and poets are quoted in a popular anthology.
Writers on 'Time' who are represented in the Parnassus anthology include George Chapman, Thomas Lodge, Michael Drayton, ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. A6r.
A subject list of work by Shakespeare and his fellow writers.
The subject 'table' shows how the editor of England's Parnassus had chosen to group the quotations, to allow readers to search the book ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - title page
Popular verses by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Early references to the work of William Shakespeare appeared in print from 1592. This book is a collection of many short quotations from contemporary ...
Robert Allott, compiler,England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 182, detail.
Shakespeare and other playwrights on ‘love’.
The Parnassus anthology groups quotations by their theme, including Marlowe on love. Christopher Marlowe, who was two months older than Shakespeare, ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - instructions for the mews, Book 2, p.11.
The care of hawks: a familiar occupation for Shakespeare.
Falconry was not only a sport of the nobility. In Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor Master Page invites his friends to early morning ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - second title page of Book 2, p.1v., detail
Everyday travel on horseback for Shakespeare’s fellow countrymen.
Most Elizabethans, and people for centuries later, traveling both within a local area or, like Shakespeare, from the country ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page book 2.
Petruchio talks of training his hawk in The Taming of The Shrew
Petruchio who has won a wife with a fortune in The Taming of the Shrew, talks about training her to his wishes by starving her, and constraining ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page, [A1r].
A falconry handbook on a subject well known by Shakespeare.
Falconry was a popular sport with the Elizabethan gentry and nobility. Latham’s handbook describes all aspects of ‘the princely ...
Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - men enjoying wine and fruit, title-page of part 2.
Characters in Shakespeare enjoyed an arbour in their garden scenes.
The practice of enjoying the out-of-doors over a simple meal, or a drink out-of-doors on a summer’s evening may have been the ...
Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - p.25, gardeners prepare their beds..
Gardening: a task known to Shakespeare
Many of Shakespeare’s scenes are set in gardens. The plays indicate a familiarity with the tasks of setting seeds, weeding and raising plants for pleasure ...
Thomas Hill, The gardeners labyrinth..., 1577 - text, p.A1r, gardeners at work..
Shakespeare’s gardeners in Richard II tended their garden in this way.
Thomas Hill’s handbook which explains the tasks of a garden’s care includes this woodcut of an arbour which ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - binding view
A smart 19th century binding on a Shakespeare 'quarto'.
The ‘quarto’ editions of Shakespeare’s work were published as slim pamphlets. The original binding of this volume, would probably ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - bookplate
An owner’s bookplate in a Shakespeare ‘quarto’.
The ownership of books is frequently indicated by a label or ‘bookplate’ created for an individual owner. The label of ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - Puck's epilogue.
Puck, as Epilogue in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The fairy magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings the play to an end as Puck speaks the epilogue after Theseus and his newly-wed courtiers ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - 'Pyramus and Thisbe' play, p.H3r.
The play presented before the court in Shakespeare's A Midsummer’ Night’s Dream.
The play of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’, like the other plays presented in Shakespeare’s Love’s ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - quarto edition, Oberon and Puck, p.C2v.
‘I know a bank where the wild thyme blows...’.
The name ‘quarto’ used for the earliest printed texts of some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays refers to the size of ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - p.B2rof the second quarto..
An eternal theme - bastardy and legitimacy in Shakespeare.
Edmund’s evil nature is presented immediately he is alone with the audience. The conflict between legitimate and illegitimate children ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - p.B2r, detail, Edmund's soliloquy.
‘Thou Nature art my goddess’: evil in Shakespeare.
In the 'quarto' edition Edmund, the eldest son of the Earl of Gloucester, is named Bastard in the speech headings, perhaps reflecting ...