early modern, 1500-1700

Examines the realities of life in Elizabethan and Jacobean times through a selection of accounts taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries, and pamphlets by and about the contemporaries of playwright William Shakespeare.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the literature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, covering writers, periods or movements, and influential events; and includes a time line, and selected bibliography.

A biography of Elizabethan playwright and poet William Shakespeare, set against the background of the historic time in which he lived.

Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the Renaissance, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.

Examines how, in the two hundred years following his death in 1616, the works of William Shakespeare became the most influential writings of English literature.

A collection of articles which explore the life and work of playwright William Shakespeare and the impact his work had on literature.

Examines the evidence surrounding the controversy over the true identity of Willaim Shakespeare and presents a new theory of who the true author of the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare really was.

Presents a biography of sixteenth-century British playwright and poet William Shakespeare and chronicles his many works of drama during the Elizabethan period.

Chronicles the life of seventeenth-century bureaucrat Samuel Pepys, drawing information from the extensive journals he kept examining every aspect of his own life.

Contains selections from the diary of sixteenth-century English diarist and civil servant Samuel Pepys, written between 1660 and 1669, a period that encompassed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague, and the burning of London.