The Time Traveler's Guide To Elizabethan England Summary

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In, “The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England” by Ian Mortimer, Mortimer effectively uses his own style to inform readers of the Elizabethan Era. Ian Mortimer uses second person point of view in his writing in, “The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England” to engage the audience or readers. He engages them by using the pronoun-“you”, for example, “how do you decide which theater to go to?...let’s say you want to go to one of the theaters for an afternoon performance. If you are heading to the Swan, the Rose, or the Globe you will cross the London Bridge” (Mortimer 2).He used the pronoun- “you” in his writing and that pronoun points out the readers and by doing that he included them and engages him in his writing. Ian Mortimer