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Author : Alfred L. Rowse
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312034253
A leading historian probes into Shakespeare's background and creative genius in an attempt to create a portrait of the Elizabethan
Author : Robert Speaight
Publisher : Cooper Square Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 0815410638
Shakespeare is as rich a view of the man behind the scenes as history will allow.
Author : Margo Anderson
Publisher : Untreed Reads
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611871784
The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the actor and businessman from Stratford-upon-Avon, was the author. Legendary figures such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Sigmund Freud have all expressed grave doubts that an uneducated man who apparently owned no books and never left England wrote plays and poems that consistently reflect a learned and well-traveled insider's perspective on royal courts and the ancient feudal nobility. Recent scholarship has turned to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford-an Elizabethan court playwright known to have written in secret and who had ample means, motive and opportunity to in fact have assumed the "Shakespeare" disguise. "Shakespeare" by Another Name is the literary biography of Edward de Vere as "Shakespeare." This groundbreaking book tells the story of de Vere's action-packed life-as Renaissance man, spendthrift, courtier, wit, student, scoundrel, patron, military adventurer, and, above all, prolific ghostwriter-finding in it the background material for all of The Bard's works. Biographer Mark Anderson incorporates a wealth of new evidence, including de Vere's personal copy of the Bible (in which de Vere underlines scores of passages that are also prominent Shakespearean biblical references).
Author : J. M. Gregson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000350135
The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists. Where many of them used the Machiavellian picture to draw one fair-faced scheming villain after another, Shakespeare absorbed more deeply the problem of the tensions between the public and private face of man. Originally published in 1983, this book examines the ways in which this psychological insight is developed and modified as a source of dramatic power throughout Shakespeare’s career. In the great sequence of history plays he examines the conflicting tensions of kingship and humanity, and the destructive potential of this dilemma is exploited to the full in the ‘problem plays’. In the last plays power and virtue seem altogether divorced: Prospero can retire to an old age at peace only at the abdication of all his power. This theme is central to the art of many dramatists, but in the context of Renaissance political philosophy it takes on an added resonance for Shakespeare.
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393079845
Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Author : Theodore Spencer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110800377X
Analysing Shakespeare's historical background and craft, Spencer's 1943 study investigates the intellectual debates of Shakespeare's age, and the effect these had on the drama of the time. The book outlines the key conflict present in the sixteenth century - the optimistic ideal of man's place in the universe, as presented by the theorists of the time, set against the indisputable and ever-present fact of original sin. This conflict about the nature of man, argues Spencer, is perhaps the deepest underlying cause for the emergence of great Renaissance drama. With detailed reference to Shakespeare's great tragedies, the book demonstrates how Shakespeare presents the fact of evil masked by the appearance of good. Shakespeare's last plays, especially The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, are also analysed in detail to show how they embody a different view from the tragedies, and the discussion is related to the larger perspective of general human experience.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Life cycle, Human
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019996607
Author : Celeste Mannis,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101099780
The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man. With black-and-white illustrations that include a diagram of the famous Globe theater, Celeste Davidson Mannis puts together the pieces of Shakespeare's life and work for young readers.
Author : Coppelia H. Kahn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520313200
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018947523
Author : Alfred L. Rowse
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312034253
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6GF2
Author : E.A.J. Honigmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349198146
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780241361641
A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019718420
This famous monologue from William Shakespeare's As You Like It provides a poetic meditation on the stages of human life. It has been a beloved and oft-quoted passage since its composition more than 400 years ago. Students of literature, theater, and philosophy will all find something to appreciate in this timeless work. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
