Shakespeare
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780766141162
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Shakespeare
First sentence: THE circumstance that so many distinguished Englishmen have been described by their biographers as butchers or butchers' sons in early times renders it necessary to consider the difference between the professional, if not social, status of members of this calling in the sixteenth or even seventeenth century and the present day.