Shakespeare's Background

Shakespeare’s Background

This volume, number 4 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, focuses on the culture of the typical people who would have attended the Elizabethan theatre in which Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed.


“A Warwickshire Lad,” by George Madden Martin

“The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote,” by Charles Dudley Warner

“Old English Jest-Book,” by W. Carew Hazlitt

“Folk-Lore of Shakespeare,” by T. F. Thiselton Dyer

“Shakespearean Playhouses,” by Joseph Quincy Adams

“The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare,” by J. J. Jusserand