Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Prayers for private use, p.62r.
Personal confessions: available to Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Richard Day’s book of prayers was a very popular book owned by many of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. The prayers printed ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Prayers for wisdom, p.89r.
Private prayers in Shakespeare's time.
Many members of the gentry and the nobility had ordained clergymen as part of their households, and had private indoor chapels, or churches in the grounds of ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Printers woodcuts, details. p.90v
The hand-press was well-known to Shakespeare.
In the 1580s when William Shakespeare came to London the Stationers' Company had been established for thirty years, since 1557, and it attempted to control ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Printing tradesmen, p.90v.
Printing books in Shakespeare's time.
By the time of William Shakespeare the printing trade had been established in England for a hundred years since William Caxton first set up a press in London in ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - reminders of mortality, p.112r.
‘Momenti Mori’: reminders to Shakespeare's contemporaries.
The ‘momenti mori’ (reminders of death) are skulls and skeletons that may also have provided inspiration for dramatic ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Shelter strangers woodcut, p.53r, detail.
Christian charity offering shelter, in Shakespeare's time.
Strangers traveling in the countryside were often made welcome, as Autolycus, Polixenes and Camillo find at the feast in the play of The Winter’s ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - shepherdess woodcut , p.99v, detail.
A countrywoman: Shakespeare married a local farmer's daughter.
When he was eighteen Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local landowner and farmer, who was seven years his elder. She ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Tending the sick woodcut, p.74v, detail.
A family death-bed: a scene familiar to Shakespeare.
A generation before William Shakespeare's birth, England was a Roman Catholic country changed by the actions of Henry VIII who declared himself ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Tending the sick woodcut, p.74v, detail.
Women in the home in Shakespeare's time.
The role of women, though legally inferior to men, was in effect recognised of equal importance as they were expected to carry out all the responsibilities ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Wisdom and prudence, p.66v.
Reading and study is praised in Shakespeare's England.
The marginal illustration in Day's Book of Christian Prayers tells its readers that 'wisdom is better than gold'. The woodcuts are reminders of ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p.284-285.
An anthology groups Shakespeare and other writings by subject for easy reference.
In part of this anthology, published in 1600, quotations from contemporary writers are grouped like a thesaurus, by ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 182
‘Quotations’ from Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
This anonymous collection of quotations includes the work of popular playwrights of the day including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 284
Shakespeare and other playwrights and poets are quoted in a popular anthology.
The spread of Shakespeare's influence was clear from the numerous quotations from his works, poems and plays, that were ...
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, ...
Royal Leamington Spa
A guide to Leamington Spa, with a green card cover which has a red printed inscription. It was published by the Leamington Corporation, c.1947-1950.