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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Series Foreword
Introduction
A Note on Sources
Chronology
1 A Midsummer Night's Dream
Synopsis of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Historical Background of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Why We Read A Midsummer Night's Dream
Historical Explorations of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Documenting A Midsummer Night's Dream
Source Texts
Document: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book IV, ca. AD 8
Document: Plutarch, Parallel Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, AD 75
Document: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "The Knight's Tale," 1476
Document: Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ca. 1591 and 1595
Magic and the Supernatural
Document: Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft, 1584
Document: Anonymous, "The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow," ca. 1628
Document: Anonymous, Robin Good-Fellow; His Mad Prankes, and Merry Jests, 1628
Queen Elizabeth
Document: Queen Elizabeth, "On Monsieur's Departure," ca. 1582
Document: Queen Elizabeth, "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury," 1588
Document: Edmund Spenser, "Letter to Raleigh" in The Faerie Queene, 1590-1596
Suggested Readings
2 The Merchant of Venice
Synopsis of The Merchant of Venice
Historical Background of The Merchant of Venice
Why We Read The Merchant of Venice
Historical Explorations of The Merchant of Venice
Documenting The Merchant of Venice
Source Texts
Document: Anonymous, Gesta Romanorum, 13th Century
Document: Giovanni Fiorentino, Il Pecorone, 14th Century
Document: Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, 1589-1590
Renaissance Jews and Anti-Semitism
Document: "Edict of Expulsion," Statute of the Jewry, 1275
Document: Anonymous, "A New Song, Shewing the Crueltie of Gernutus a Jew," ca. 1620
Document: William Camden, The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, 1630
Venice and the Economic Exchange
Document: Simonds d'Ewes, Parliamentary Debate on Usury, 1571
Document: Shakespeare, Sonnets, 1609
Document: Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities Hastily Gobbled Up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c, 1611
Suggested Readings
3 Twelfth Night
Synopsis of Twelfth Night
Historical Background of Twelfth Night
Why We Read Twelfth Night
Historical Explorations of Twelfth Night
Documenting Twelfth Night
Source Texts
Document: G'Ingannati, or The Deceived Ones, 1531
Document: Barnabe Rich, "Apolonius and Silla," 1581
Document: John Lyly, Gallathea, 1588
Home and Court
Document: Baldassare Castiglione, Il Cortegiano or The Book of the Courtier, 1528
Document: Robert Armin, Fool upon Fool, 1608
Document: William Perkins, Christian Economy, 1608
Clothing and Identity
Document: "Statutes of Apparel," 1574
Document: Edward Alleyn and Philip Henslowe, "An Inventory of Costumes," ca. 1600
Document: Shakespeare, Sonnets, 1609
Document: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl, 1611
Document: Hic Mulier and Haec-Vir, 1620
Document: William Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, 1633
Suggested Readings
4 The Tempest
Synopsis of The Tempest
Historical Background of The Tempest
Why We Read The Tempest
Historical Explorations of The Tempest
Documenting The Tempest
Source Texts
Document: Desiderius Erasmus, "The Shipwreck," 1518
Document: Michel de Montaigne, "Of Cannibals," 1580
Document: William Strachey, A True Reportory of the Wracke, and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, 1625
Utopias and the New World
Document: Ovid, Metamorphoses, ca. AD 8
Document: Sir Thomas More, Utopia, 1516
Document: John Dee, General and Rare Memorials Pertaining to the Perfect Arte of Navigation, 1577
Document: Thomas Hariot, The Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, 1588
Masques and Spectacle
Document: Sir Philip Sidney, "Defense of Poesy," ca. 1580
Document: Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness, 1605
Document: Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, 1614
Suggested Readings
Index
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