Facts about Shakespeare

By: William Allan Nielson Ashley Horace Thorndike

" ...]escape coming somehow within its sway, and some of the greatest wrecked their lives in efforts to secure its approval. It is no wonder that the plays of The City and the CourtShakespeare deal so largely with kings, queens, and their courts. Under the Tudors, and still more under the Stuarts, the court aimed at increasing the central authority so as to bring every affair of its subjects under its direct control. In London, however, this effort at centralization met with strong opposition. The government was in the hands of the guilds representative of the wealth of the city, and was coming ...]."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505332389
• ISBN13: 9781505332384
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"