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Subject(s)

• Dramatists, English—Early modern, 1500-1700—Biography [Browse]
• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 [Browse]

Series

Blackwell critical biographies. [More in this series]

Summary note

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on often neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing. Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced theatre reviewer Pays particular attention to Shakespeare's theatrical contemporaries and the ways in which they influenced his writing Offers an intriguing account

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• The Life of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Critical Biography; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; The Shakespeare Family Tree; 1 "Born into the World": 1564-1571; Birth and Baptism; William Shakespeare's Name; John and Mary Shakespeare; Stratford; The Imaginative World; Notes; 2 "Nemo SibiNascitur": 1571-1578; Grammar School; The Books; Role Models; Becoming a Writer; Becoming an Actor; Recognition; Notes; 3 "Hic et Ubique": 1578-1588; John Shakespeare's Finances; Shakespeare After School; Theater in the 1580's; Marriage and Children; Notes
• 4 "This Man's Art and That Man's Scope": 1588-1592 The Playwriting Business and Henslowe; Playwrights of the 1580's; Art and Scope and Shakespeare; Notes; 5 "Tigers' Hearts": 1592-1593; The Early Quartos: Competing Theories; History and the Henry VI Plays; 1 Henry VI; 2 and 3 Henry VI; Actors vs Playwrights; Titus Andronicus; Notes; 6 "The Dangerous Year": 1593-1594; Venus and Adonis; Summer 1593; Lucrece; WS and HW; The Early Sonnets; Notes; 7 "Our Usual Manager of Mirth": 1594-1595; Theater Companies of 1594; Shakespeare the Actor; The Taming of the Shrew; The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Comedy of Errors Writing for the Lord Chamberlain's Men; Notes; 8 "The Strong'st and Surest Way to Get": Histories, 1595-1596; Richard III; Edward III; King John; Richard II; Notes; 9 "When Love Speaks": Tragedy and Comedy, 1595-1596; Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Love's Labour's Lost; "Every Word Doth Almost Tell My Name"; Notes; 10 "You Had a Father; Let Your Son Say So": 1596-1598; The Coat of Arms and Hamnet Shakespeare; 1 Henry IV; The Merchant of Venice; No Place and New Place; The Merry Wives of Windsor; 2 Henry IV; Much Ado About Nothing; The After-Effects of Grief
• Notes 11 "Unworthy Scaffold": 1598-1599; Ben Jonson; The Scaffold and the Globe; Satire and Satiric Drama; As You Like It; Julius Caesar; Henry V; Notes; 12 "These Words Are Not Mine": 1599-1601; Recognition: Palladis Tamia and The Passionate Pilgrim; Quotation: Belvedere, England's Parnassus, and the Parnassus Plays; Appropriation: The Essex Rebellion; Attribution: Love's Martyr; Revision: Sir Thomas More; Notes; 13 "Looking Before and After": 1600-1603; Hamlet; Stratford Land; Twelfth Night; Troilus and Cressida; The End of the Reign; Notes; 14 "This Most Balmy Time": 1603-1605
• Welcoming the New Reign The 1603/1604 Season; The King's Playwright?; Measure for Measure; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Notes; 15 "Past the Size of Dreaming": 1606-1609; "Late Style"; All's Well That Ends Well; Timon of Athens; Guarini and Tragicomedy; Antony and Cleopatra; Pericles; Coriolanus; Events in Stratford, Events in London; Notes; 16 "Like an Old Tale": 1609-1611; Embarrassments of 1609: Troilus and Cressida, "Shakespeare's Sonnets," and Pericles; The Masque; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; The Tempest; Notes; 17 "The Second Burden": 1612-1616; John Fletcher and Cardenio
• Henry VIII and Its Aftermath

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ISBN

• 9786613616265
• 9781118231746
• 1118231740
• 9781118231753
• 1118231759
• 9781118231777
• 1118231775
• 9781280586439
• 1280586435
• 9781118231760
• 1118231767

OCLC

781864174

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