"A performance of a play in an Elizabethan theater, showing the audience as well as the stage and the upper platform, which represented the balcony, or second story of a house."

The Elizabethan Period section of the book begins with two paragraphs on The Renaissance, one long passage on Reformation and then another on Humanism. England is suddenly a world power, this Harold Sichel print and then one page on world expansion yielding to emerging democratic ideals. In four paragraphs they cover about 200 years. Writing elementary history, condensing everything into mere sentences, must be annoyingly hard. Writing it in a literature book, more so.

Look, kids, Macbeth!

Judging by the marginalia my grandfather wrote in the book, he had to memorize and paraphrase a lot of passages from the play.

I have a suspicion he wasn't wild about it.

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