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Helen Hackett on The Elizabethan Mind

Helen Hackett on The Elizabethan Mind

The Elizabethan historian is interviewed by fellow writer Steven Veerapen

Helen Hackett, The Elizabethan Mind is the product of an enormous amount of research, comprising study of a variety of texts, from plays to printed prose works, to poems, and of course dramas. I’m curious as to whether you think the medium can tell us something about...

The Elizabethan Mind: Thomas Whythorne

The Elizabethan Mind: Thomas Whythorne

The composer wrote the first known autobiography.
Helen Hackett

In the 1570s Thomas Whythorne, a musician and composer, wrote an account of his life. It’s an extraordinary document, not least since the term and concept of ‘autobiography’ didn’t yet exist. Whythorne charts his changing mental states through the different phases and...