Nine Lives Of William Shakespeare

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441168467

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Nine Lives of William Shakespeare by Graham Holderness Pdf

Acclaimed as the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare needs little introduction. Or does he? Going beyond Shakespeare the writer and actor, Graham Holderness explores the fact and fiction, tradition and myth, surrounding Shakespeare's life. Combining biography and fictional narrative, Holderness takes a fresh critical approach to the problem of piecing together a definitive account of Shakespeare's life and work from scant historical information. Instead, this study builds upon and examines the many theories that surround the life of this well-known, yet remarkably unknown man. Nine Shakespeares are presented: writer, player, butcher boy, businessman, husband, friend, lover, Catholic and portrait. By carefully critiquing these biographies and reimagining these nine men, Nine Lives of William Shakespeare creates a unique picture of how this playwright became Shakespeare as he is understood today. Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare's plays. It goes back to the source – the most living language imaginable – and recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will return you to the plays with opened eyes.

Author : Ari Berk,Kristen McDermott,Ian Andrew
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763647940

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William Shakespeare by Ari Berk,Kristen McDermott,Ian Andrew Pdf

Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.

Author : Martin Allwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Shakespeare in fiction, drama, poetry, etc
ISBN : 9185412392

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Meet Will Shakespeare, Playwright by Martin Allwood Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000132496252

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson Pdf

Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101063692881

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The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017989210

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The Life of William Shakespeare. [With Verses Upon Him.] by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : David Livingstone
Publisher : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788024456836

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In Our Own Image: Fictional Representations of William Shakespeare by David Livingstone Pdf

This publication looks at fictional portrayals of William Shakespeare with a focus on novels, short stories, plays, occasional poems, films, television series and even comics. In terms of time span, the analysis covers the entire twentieth century and ends in the present-day. The authors included range from well-known figures (G.B. Shaw, Kipling, Joyce) to more obscure writers. The depictions of Shakespeare are varied to say the least, with even interpretations giving credence to the Oxfordian theory and feminist readings involving a Shakespearian sister of sorts. The main argument is that readings of Shakespeare almost always inform us more about the particular author writing the specific work than about the historical personage.

Author : Miranda M. Howarth M.A.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781728386102

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A Reader-Friendly Biography of William Shakespeare by Miranda M. Howarth M.A. Pdf

This book is for everyone who wants to discover more about the double life of Will Shakespeare. He was born in the middle of the 16th century, in the middle of England, in the middle of turbulent times. He wasn’t a posh boy, but a provincial parvenu who took the new London theatre-world by storm. Find out how he did it!

Author : Curling Henry
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1318951402

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William Shakespeare as He Lived. An Historical Tale by Curling Henry Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1006030956

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The Works of William Shakespeare in Nine Volumes by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:32000001303579

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Life of William Shakespeare by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89090395195

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Kevin Gilvary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351186056

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The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare by Kevin Gilvary Pdf

Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is insufficient material for a cradle to grave account of his life, that most of what is written about him cannot be verified from primary sources, and that Shakespearean biography did not attain scholarly or academic respectability until long after Samuel Schoenbaum published William Shakespeare A Documentary Life in 1975. This study begins with a short survey of the history and practice of biography and then surveys the very limited biographical material for Shakespeare. Although Shakespeare gradually attained the status as a national hero during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there were no serious attempts to reconstruct his life. Any attempt at an account of his life or personality amounts, however, merely to "biografiction". Modern biographers differ sharply on Shakespeare’s apparent relationships with Southampton and with Jonson, which merely underlines the fact that the documentary record has to be greatly expanded through contextual description and speculation in order to appear like a Life of Shakespeare.