Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Prayers for our enemies, p.54r.
Life-style advice for Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Many of Day’s marginal woodcuts included scripture quotations and advice on lifestyle, such as ministering to the sick.
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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 - 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 ...
Riding Boot
This is a pair of Haussa riding boots. They are made from leather, with soft leather soles, and a paler patch of leather on top of the foot. The two bands of pale leather at the top of the boot are for ...
Riding Boot
This is a pair of Haussa riding boots. They are made from leather, with soft leather soles, and a paler patch of leather on top of the foot. The two bands of pale leather at the top of the boot are for ...
Riding Boot
This is a pair of Haussa riding boots. They are made from leather, with thick leather soles. The bands of black paint across the foot, and pale leather at the top of the boot are for decoration.
Riding Boot
This is a pair of Haussa riding boots. They are made from leather, with thick leather soles. The bands of black paint across the foot, and pale leather at the top of the boot are for decoration.
Riding Boot
One of a pair of Haussa riding boots It is made from red/brown leather with soft leather soles. Three bands of pale leather decorate the top of the boot.
Riding Boot
One of a pair of Haussa riding boots. It is made from red/brown leather with soft leather soles. Three bands of pale leather decorate the top of the boot.
Riding Habit - Waistcoat
A riding waistcoat which was part of a riding habit, c.1890. The waistcoat is made from a blue jacquard weave with a diamond pattern and fastened with 17 grey buttons. The collar is fastened with two ...
Riding Hat
A tall black riding hat with a black band.