William Shakespeare : a literary life
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William Shakespeare : a literary life
(Macmillan literary lives)
Macmillan, 1989
- : hard
- : pbk.
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780333417171
Description
This is an account of Shakespeare's career as a professional dramatist, comparing him with Ben Jonson in order to isolate qualities unique to Shakespeare's achievement, and offer new perspectives and basis for an informed historical reading of his works. Although the author follows the contours of his life, he does not intend the work to be a conventional biography of his life and family, but examines the main strands of his work in a variety of contexts and recognizes that many questions relating to Shakespeare and his background remain intensely controversial.
Table of Contents
- Myths, legends and anonymity
- beginnings
- poems and patrons
- servant to the Lord Chamberlain
- English chronicle histories
- Sly's dream - Romantic comedy
- the turn of the century
- the new reign
- "Tales, Tempests and Such Like Drolleries".
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: pbk. ISBN 9780333665480
Description
William Shakespeare is the best-known writer in the English-speaking world. Contrary to popular myth, we actually know more about him and his career than we do about most dramatists of his era - the fruits of three hundred years of fascinated research. Whilst we know less than we would like about Shakespeare's private life, we do have a far clearer picture of his professional career, and of the theatres and social structures with which he was involved. And yet the significance of what we know is fiercely contested and we are challenged by a host of contradictions. Elizabethan actors were often classed as vagabonds yet some were also servants to royalty who performed at court. All the roles in Shakespeare's plays were acted by men, yet he wrote strong roles for women from Lady Macbeth to Rosalind. So was Shakespeare a feminist before his time? Richard Dutton tackles these and other issues which keep Shakespeare, the most influential literary life in literary history, at the centre of our cultural life today.
Table of Contents
Preface, with Suggestions for Further Reading - Myths, Legends and Anonymity - Beginnings - Poems and Patrons - Servant to the Lord Chamberlain - English Chronicle Histories - Sly's Dream: Romantic Comedy - The Turn of the Century - The New Reign - Tales, Tempests and such like drolleries - Notes - Index
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