A Biography Of William Shakespeare

Author : Lois Potter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118231777

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The Life of William Shakespeare by Lois Potter Pdf

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. 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 of the life and work of the great poet-dramatist structured around the idea of memory Explores often neglected literary and historical contexts that illuminate Shakespeare's life and works

Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192661418

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The Private Life of William Shakespeare by Lena Cowen Orlin Pdf

A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables. It also shows how the histories of some of Shakespeare's neighbours illuminate aspects of his own life. Throughout, we encounter a Shakespeare who consciously and with purpose designed his life. Having witnessed the business failures of his merchant father, he determined not to follow his father's model. His early wedding freed him from craft training to pursue a literary career. His wife's work, and probably the assistance of his parents and brothers, enabled him to make the first of the property purchases that grounded his life as a gentleman. With his will, he provided for both his daughters in ways that were suitable to their circumstances; Anne Shakespeare was already protected by dower rights in the houses and lands he had acquired. His funerary monument suggests that the man of 'small Latin and less Greek' in fact had some experience of an Oxford education. Evidences are that he commissioned the monument himself.

Author : Alfred Lestie Rowe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1963-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349003150

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William Shakespeare by Alfred Lestie Rowe Pdf

Author : Anna Beer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119605270

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The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare by Anna Beer Pdf

Discover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of William Shakespeare The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering readers a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family, and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually have about the man himself. The book is written using scholarly citations and references, but with an approachable style suitable for readers with little or no background knowledge of Shakespeare or the era in which he lived. The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare asks provocative questions about the playwright-poet’s preoccupation with gender roles and sexuality, and explores why it is so challenging to ascertain his political and religious allegiances. Conservative or radical? Misogynist or proto-feminist? A lover of men or women or both? Patriot or xenophobe? This introduction to Shakespeare’s life and works offers no simple answers, but recognizes a man intensely responsive to the world around him, a playwright willing and able to collaborate with others and able to collaborate with others, and, of course, his exceptional, perhaps unique, contribution to literature in English. The book covers the entirety of William Shakespeare’s life (1564-1616), taking him from his childhood in Stratford-upon-Avon to his success in the theatre world of London and then back to his home town and comfortable retirement. The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare sets his achievement as a writer within the dangerous, vibrant cultural world that was Elizabethan and Jacobean England, revealing a writer’s life of frequent collaboration, occasional crisis, but always of profound creativity. Perfect for undergraduate students in Literature, Drama, Theatre Studies, History, and Cultural Studies courses, The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare will also earn a place in the libraries of students interested in Gender Studies and Creative Writing.

Author : Sidney Lee
Publisher : SEVERUS Verlag
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783863473235

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A Life of William Shakespeare. Biography by Sidney Lee Pdf

No estimate of Shakespeare’s genius can be adequate. In knowledge of human character, in wealth of humour, in depth of passion, in fertility of fancy, and in soundness of judgement, he has no rival.' William Shakespeare was one of the most influential dramatists and poets whose plays are performed more often than those of any other playwright till today. In this work Sidney Lee presents the major facts of Shakespeare’s life and illustrates them with numerous quotes of the sonnets and plays. Sidney Lee was an editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and several English classics. One of his special subjects was the life and work of William Shakespeare.

Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061840906

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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro Pdf

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.

Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Random House
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781588367815

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Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate Pdf

“One man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in As You Like It, Bate deduces the crucial events of Shakespeare’s life and connects them to his world and work as never before. Here is the author as an infant, born into a world of plague and syphillis, diseases with which he became closely familiar; as a schoolboy, a position he portrayed in The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which a clever, cheeky lad named William learns Latin grammar; as a lover, married at eighteen to an older woman already pregnant, perhaps presaging Bassanio, who in The Merchant of Venice won a wife who could save him from financial ruin. Here, too, is Shakespeare as a soldier, writing Henry the Fifth’s St. Crispin’s Day speech, with a nod to his own monarch Elizabeth I’s passionate addresses; as a justice, revealing his possible legal training in his precise use of the law in plays from Hamlet to Macbeth; and as a pantaloon, an early retiree because of, Bate postulates, either illness or a scandal. Finally, Shakespeare enters oblivion, with sonnets that suggest he actively sought immortality through his art and secretly helped shape his posthumous image more than anyone ever knew. Equal parts masterly detective story, brilliant literary analysis, and insightful world history, Soul of the Age is more than a superb new recounting of Shakespeare’s experiences; it is a bold and entertaining work of scholarship and speculation, one that shifts from past to present, reality to the imagination, to reveal how this unsurpassed artist came to be.

Author : Frederick Julius Pohl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106007160937

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William Shakespeare by Frederick Julius Pohl Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788027237142

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HAMLET by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, written by William Shakespeare between 1599 and 1601, is set in Denmark and recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who murdered the King, takes the throne and marries Hamlet's mother. Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. Sir Sidney Lee (1859 – 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.

Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1875*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:223449289

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A Biography of William Shakespeare by Charles Knight Pdf

Author : Alfred Leslie Rowse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503882227

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William Shakespeare by Alfred Leslie Rowse Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Brunton Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409784852

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The Autobiography of Shakespeare a Fragment by William Shakespeare Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : David Ellis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748653881

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Truth About William Shakespeare by David Ellis Pdf

A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information

Author : Sidney Lazarus Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : OCLC:1121424886

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A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lazarus Lee Pdf

Author : Jude Morgan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250025043

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The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan Pdf

Named One of Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2014 There are so few established facts about how the son of a glove maker from Warwickshire became one of the greatest writers of all time that some people doubt he could really have written so many astonishing plays. We know that he married Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant and six years older than he, at the age of eighteen, and that one of their children died of the plague. We know that he left Stratford to seek his fortune in London, and eventually succeeded. He was clearly an unwilling craftsman, ambitious actor, resentful son, almost good-enough husband. But when and how did he also become a genius? The Secret Life of William Shakespeare pulls back the curtain to imagine what it might have really been like to be Shakespeare before a seemingly ordinary man became a legend. In the hands of acclaimed historical novelist Jude Morgan, this is a brilliantly convincing story of unforgettable richness, warmth, and immediacy.