More contributioins; I don't know Briggs but Laslett is, as John says, a
classic and good background. B.
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It took a few stabs in the dark, but with some help from Google I've
retrieved a reference:
Julia Briggs, "This Stage-Play World; Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625,"
2nd ed., 1997, Oxford pb, $19.95.
If I recall rightly, Julia Briggs was a student of Keith Thomas. Her
book deals well with the complexities and continuities of late
Elizabethan / early Stuart culture, with social history, religion,
education, theaters, print culture; better on courtly culture than on
popular, less literate life.
Any opinions on Peter Laslett, "The World We Have Lost"? a classic, and
thus more referenced than read?
Cheers, Jon Quitslund
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From: "Hardin, Richard F" <[log in to unmask]>
> Oxford has just come out with a short history of Eng lit.
> RF Hardin
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> A friend of a friend is taking her orals in English Renaissance
> literature and asked me what there was in the way of good period
> background writing on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that
would
> enable her to put together the individual authors she has studied.
In
> part this would concern literature and in part history. The history
> texts got discussed a couple of weeks ago, but what general
discussions
> of the literature and its contexts would people recommend?
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