The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare`s life and works focusing on oftern 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.
Taal / Language : English
Inhoudsopgave:
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
2 "Nemo Sibi Nascitur": 1571--1578
Grammar School
The Books
Role Models
Becoming a Writer
Becoming an Actor
Recognition
3 "Hic et Ubique": 1578--1588
John Shakespeare`s Finances
Shakespeare After School
Theater in the 1580s
Marriage and Children
4 "This Man`s Art and That Man`s Scope": 1588--1592
The Playwriting Business and Henslowe
Playwrights of the 1580s
Art and Scope and Shakespeare
5 "Tigers` Hearts": 1592--1593
The Early Quartos: Competing Theories
The Henry VI Plays
Actors vs Playwrights
Titus Andronicus
6 "The Dangerous Year": 1593--1594
Venus and Adonis
Summer 1593
Lucrece
WS and HW
The Early Sonnets
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
8 "The Strong`st and Surest Way to Get": 1595--1596
Richard III
Edward III
King John
Richard II
9 "When Love Speaks": 1595--1596
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night`s Dream
Love`s Labour`s Lost
"Every word doth almost tell my name"
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
11 "Unworthy Scaffold": 1598--1599
Ben Jonson
The Scaffold and the Globe
Satire and Satiric Drama
Sonnets of Competition
As You Like It
Julius Caesar
Henry V
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 and Attribution
Revision: Sir Thomas More
13 "Looking Before and After": 1600--1603
Hamlet
Stratford Land
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
The End of the Reign
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
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
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
17 "The Second Burden": 1612--1616
John Fletcher and Cardenio
Henry VIII and Its Aftermath
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Last Years
The Survivors
18 "In the Mouths of Men": 1616 and After
The Folio of 1623
Actors, Biographers, and Editors
Performance
Cornucopian Shakespeare: Criticism -- and Everything Else
Memorializing Shakespeare: National and Global
Conclusion: Myth and "Genius"
Bibliography
Index
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Gewicht: 652 gram
Formaat: 227 x 152 x 24 mm
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The Life of William Shakespeare
A Critical Biography
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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.
Taal / Language : English
Inhoudsopgave:
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1: "Born into the World" 1564-1571
2: "Nemo Sibi Nascitur" 1571-1578
3: "Hic et Ubique" 1578-1588
4: "This Man`s Art and That Man`s Scope" 1588-93
5: "Tiger`s Hearts" 1591-1593
6: "The Dangerous Year" 1593-4
7: "Our Usual Manager of Mirth" 1594-5
8: "The Strong`st and Surest Way to Get" 1595-6
9: "When Love Speaks" 1595-6
10: "You Had a Father, Let Your Son Say So" 1597-8
11: "Unworthy Scaffold" 1598-9
12: "These Words Are Not Mine" 1599-1601
13: "Looking Before and After" 1600-2
14: "This Most Balmy Time" 1603-5
15: "Past the Size of Dreaming" 1606-8
16: "Like an Old Tale" 1609-11
17: "The Second Burden" 1612-16
18: In the Mouths of Men" 1616-
Select Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations [ADD SHAKESPEARE FAMILY TREE?]
1 Map of Stratford upon Avon as it was in the sixteenth century.
2 Drawing by Samuel Ireland of New Place, the Gild Chapel, and the Grammar School in Stratford.
3 Map of London, showing places associated with Shakespeare
4 Cobbe portrait of the Earl of Southampton.
5 Richard Burbage
6 The Shakespeare coat of arms
7 Title page of The Spanish Tragedy with woodcut
8 Ben Jonson
9 Will Kemp (9 Days` Wonder)
10 Robert Armin, from frontispiece to The Two Maids of Moreclacke
11 Title page from Love`s Martyr
12 Page from MS of Sir Thomas More
13 George Chapman
14 John Lowin
15 Thomas Middleton
16 Painful Adventures of Pericles, showing Gower
17 John Fletcher
18 Page of Shakespeare`s will, showing signatures
19 Shakespeare`s bust in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford
20 Shakespeare First Folio: frontispiece and Jonson`s verses
21 John Suckling holding Shakespeare folio (painting by Van Dyck)
22 Images of Shakespeare and his characters, as portrayed by actors
23 Composite of Shakespeare portraits
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Gebonden: harde kaft, 510 pagina's
Verschenen: april 2012
Gewicht: 792 gram
Formaat: 234 x 160 x 29 mm
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Macbeth
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Macbeth - Shakespeare`s dark and bloody `Scottish play` in a stunning new volume. With timelines and essays that put the prose in context, written by scholar Jessie M. Lander, in collaboration with an expert on Shakespeare
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Verschenen: mei 2012
Gewicht: 1231 gram
Formaat: 254 x 187 x 37 mm
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Romeo & Juliet
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Shakespeare`s timeless tale of star-crossed lovers in a new volume. Includes contextulising essays and timelines, written by scholar Mario DiGangi, in collaboration with a foremost authority with Shakespeare, David Scott. Illustrated by Kevin Stanton
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Mckenzie, William, Papadopoulou, Theodora
Shakespeare and I
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"Provocative exploration of how the self is revealed or exposed in the experience of reading, viewing and writing about Shakespeare"-
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Verschenen: mei 2012
Gewicht: 386 gram
Formaat: 210 x 140 x 19 mm
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Mckenzie, William, Papadopoulou, Theodora
Shakespeare and I
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"Provocative exploration of how the self is revealed or exposed in the experience of reading, viewing and writing about Shakespeare"-
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Ingenaaid: paperback,kaft slap
Verschenen: maart 2012
Gewicht: 323 gram
Formaat: 198 x 132 x 19 mm
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Zombie Island
A Shakespeare Undead Novel
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The follow-up to }Shakespeare Undead{, in which vampire William Shakespeare and his Dark Lady are stranded on a mystical, vampire-infested island
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Ingenaaid: paperback,kaft slap, 265 pagina's
Verschenen: mei 2012
Gewicht: 227 gram
Formaat: 216 x 140 x 19 mm
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New Cambridge Shakespeare 41 Volume Set
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The complete set; RRP to be confirmed
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Ingenaaid: paperback,kaft slap
Verschenen: april 2012
Gewicht: 16000 gram
Formaat: 480 x 340 x 180 mm
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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