“GOLDEN AGE OF ENGLAND”
Golden ages are not frequent in history. and they do not last long. But Shakespeare happened on the best time and country in which to live, in order to exercise with least distraction and most encouragement the highest faculties of man. What sort of nation was he born into 0 First, the background of England was near perfection. There was an absolute balance of forest, field and city. A provincial town had a population of about 5000. London reached perhaps 200.000, and the whole country some 4,000.000. The tyranny of the machine was not yet established, no one thought of mass production, men were craftsmen still, taking a pride and a pleasure in their work, and even innkeepers strove io be pleasant. Finally, the Elizabethans had an immense zest for living, and the language had reached its fullest beauty and power. It was an age of great building, being marked at Cambridge by Caius’s Gate of Honour, English mariners sailed the wide seas, and the Armade was scattered. — (G. M. Trevelyn, in “English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries.”)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 6
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184“GOLDEN AGE OF ENGLAND” Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 6
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