Captures the worldviews, concerns, joys, and experiences of people
living through the cultural changes in the second half of the
sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century, Shakespeare's
age. Elizabethans lived through a time of cultural collapse and
rejuvenation as the impacts of globalization, the religious
Reformation, economic and scientific revolutions, wars, and
religious dissent forced them to reformulate their ideas of God,
nation, society and self. This well-written, accessible book
depicting how Elizabethans perceived reality and acted on their
perceptions illustrates Elizabethan life, offering readers
well-told stories about the Elizabethan people and the world around
them. It defines the older ideas of pre-Elizabethan culture and
shows how they were shattered and replaced by a new culture based
on the emergence of individual conscience. The book posits that
post-Reformation English culture, emphasizing the internalization
of religious certainties, embraced skepticism in ways that valued
individualism over older communal values. Being Elizabethan
portrays how people's lives were shaped and changed by the tension
between a received belief in divine stability and new,
destabilizing, ideas about physical and metaphysical truth. It
begins with a chapter that examines how idealized virtues in a
divinely governed universe were encapsulated in funeral sermons and
epitaphs, exploring how they perceived the Divine Order. Other
chapters discuss Elizabethan social stations, community, economics,
self-expression, and more. Illustrates how early modern culture was
born by exposing readers to events, artistic expressions, and
personal experiences Provides an understanding of Elizabethan
people by summarizing momentous events with which they grew up
Appeals to students, scholars, and laymen interested in history and
literature of the Elizabethan era Shows how a new cultural era, the
age of Shakespeare, grew from collapsing late Medieval worldviews.
Being Elizabethan is a captivating read for anyone interested in
early modern English culture and society. It is an excellent source
of information for those studying Tudor and early Stuart history
and/or literature.
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