Romeo and Juliet: Texts and Contexts Book

	About the series
	About this volume
	List of illustrations
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet	37
Pt. 2	Cultural contexts	153
1	Italy	155
	The idea of Italy for Shakespeare's English audience	155
	From His ten years travel	164
	From The schoolmaster	167
	From The unfortunate traveler, or the life of Jack Wilton	172
	From The history of Italy	176
	From A discovery of the great subtlety and wonderful wisdom of the Italians	182
	From A description of the author's journey from Trento to London	184
2	Between men	186
	Relationships between men	186
	From The affectionate shepherd	200
	From His practice	208
	From Paradoxes of defense	220
	Keeping the peace	230
	Proclamation enforcing statutes of apparel	231
	Proclamation prohibiting unlawful assembly under martial law	232
	Proclamation enforcing earlier proclamation against handguns	234
	Proclamation prohibiting the publishing of any reports or writing of duels	236
	Report to Lord Burghley	239
3	Loving and marrying	245
	From A work worth the reading	248
	From A Bartholomew fairing for parents	260
	From Conjugal counsel : or, seasonable advice, both to unmarried, and married persons	272
	From A treatise of spousals	284
	Letter to Sir George More	294
	From The canzoniere	298
	Sonnet 9	302
	Sonnet 130	303
	Solemnization of matrimony	304
4	Family life	313
	A prayer of children for their parents	315
	Correspondence of the Bagot family	315
	Letter to Richard Broughton	317
	Letter to Richard Bagot esquire	319
	Letter to Richard Bagot	320
	Letter to Henry Skipwith	322
	Letter to Walter Bagot	323
	Letter to an unidentified man	325
	Letter to Walter Bagot	326
	Letter to Walter Bagot	328
	Letter to Walter Bagot	331
	Letter to Lewes Bagot	332
	Letter to Walter Bagot	334
	Letter to Henry Skipwith	334
	Letter to Walter Bagot	336
	Letter to Walter Bagot	337
	Letter to Walter Bagot	338
	Letter to Richard Bagot	339
	Letter to Christopher Brooke	340
	Letter to Richard Bagot	342
	Mothering	342
	From The countess of Lincoln's nursery	343
	From A preparative to marriage	352
	From The diary of the Lady Anne Clifford	357
	From Delights for ladies to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories	377
5	Friars	380
	From The life of the most holy father St. Francis	388
	From Acts and monuments	392
	From The faerie queene	396
6	Death and the stars	400
	Love and death	403
	From Erotomania	403
	From An act concerning physicians and Royal College of Physicians of London, from Pharmacopoeia Londinensis	413
	From Pharmacopoeia Londinensis	419
	A prayer to be said at our going into bed and a prayer when we be ready to sleep	420
	Astrology	421
	Funerals and monuments	429
	The order for the burial of the dead	429
	Proclamation prohibiting destruction of church monuments	436
	From An homily against apparel of idolatry and superfluous decking of churches	439
	Bibliography	445
	Index	461