Servants, labourers and the poor were at the bottom of society in Shakespeare’s ... and of a king of England too. In London, during the Elizabethan period, the first dedicated theatres appeared.

In the first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, Joseph Mansky traces the crime across law ... ‘This important book recovers the forgotten history of a genre that was central to ...

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference argues, via the work of English playwright William Shakespeare, the importance of Catholicism as a necessary ...

through their work the period between the Germanic migrations and the Norman Conquest came to be regarded as a foundational time for Elizabethan England, overlapping with and contributing to ...

Shakespeare was a tenant of the Company of Leathersellers, the guild that organised the Elizabethan leather trade. His home was most likely in a cluster of properties that overlooked the ...