Author: Hazlitt
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: William Edward Armytage Axon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manchester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Author: Martin Wiggins
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199265739
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Volume 4 covers the years 1598-1602 during which dramatic satire emerged, as well as the opening of the original Globe theatre in London.

Author: Richard Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flour-mills
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Richard Wright Procter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher: London : J.R. Smith
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588367819
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 495

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“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: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Richard Proudfoot
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474243010
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Based on three lectures given by Professor Richard Proudfoot in October 1999 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of The Globe, The Arden Shakespeare's centenary and Professor Proudfoot's retirement from King's College; this enjoyable volume aims to give a general and non-specialist audience some sense of what scholarship has achieved in three critical areas of Shakespeare studies at the end of the twentieth century. Freshly and engagingly written, this lively volume will appeal to all those with an interest in Shakespeare studies.