title: Understanding Shakespeare's England: A Companion for the American Reader
author:  Jo McMurtry 
description: Designed for the American reader unfamiliar with Shakespeare's England, this book provides information on such wide-ranging topics as degree and rank, money, life in London and the countryside, marriage customs and the role of women, witches and criminals, and even cuckoldry. Nearly every facet of Elizabethan life is explored in a straightforward and often amusing manner. Although McMurtry offers little new material, she skillfully integrates her explanations with the poetry and drama of the era, clarifying points of possible confusion. This carefully researched work would be useful as a high school or college text or for anyone wanting to know the basic facts about Elizabethan England.<br /><i>- Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo</i><br />Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: 3 Northrop Frye 
  A NATURAL 
  PERSPECTIVE 
  The Development of Shakespearean 
  A Harvest/HBJ Book 
  
  A Natural Perspective 
  
  A NATURAL 
  PERSPECTIVE 
  The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance 
  NORTHROP FRYE 
  A HarvestiHBJBook 
  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 
  San Diego New York London 
  
  Copyright © 1965 Columbia University Press 
  All rights reserved. 
  No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted 
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  Harvest/HBJ edition published by arrangement 
  with Columbia University Press 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 65-17458 
  Printed in the United States of America 
  ISBN 0-15-665414-8 
  »17'99/ 
  F G H I J 
  
  To the Board of Regents of 
  Victoria University 
  
  Preface 
  The present book is a revision of the Bampton Lectures, 
  delivered at Columbia University in November, 1963, under 