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Shakespeare Without a Life

Author : Margreta de Grazia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019881254X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Without a Life written by Margreta de Grazia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry. For almost two centuries, Shakespeare had no biography. Neither did his life have a timeline, and historians and archivists did not have the materials to make one. His canon did not include the Sonnets, his only work written in the first person. In sum, the cornerstones of modern Shakespeare criticism were simply not there. Does this mean that Shakespeare was not valued or understood until after 1800? Each of the four chapters focuses on one of those critical absences. Margreta de Grazia explores the anecdotes that were published in Shakespeare's first 'Life' (1709), which would be largely invalidated by later scholars, and the ways in which a chronology of Shakespeare's plays was established, mirroring popular conceptions of Shakespeare's life as his work progressed from early comedy to late romance. The last two chapters consider the lack of surviving documents that relate to Shakespeare's life and the search of scholars for archival materials that would further evidence Shakespeare, and the role of the Sonnets--almost lost after Shakespeare's death--in the unfolding of this literary life.

Shakespeare Without a Life

Author : Margreta de Grazia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192540653
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Without a Life written by Margreta de Grazia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry. For almost two centuries after his death, Shakespeare had no biography. The makings of one were not available. No chronology had been devised by which to coordinate the events in his life with the writing of his works. Nor was there an archive of primary materials on which to base a life. And the only work by Shakespeare written in the first person, the Sonnets, had yet to be critically edited and incorporated into the canon. Without a biography, how could Shakespeare have been valued and understood? In Shakespeare without a Life, Margreta de Grazia looks at aspects of Shakespeare's reception between 1600 and 1800 that have been all but lost to the now still prevailing biographical impulse. It recovers the anecdote as a form of literary criticism, retrieves the ancient category of genre as the canon's organizing rubric, demonstrates how the quest for authentic documents invalidated other forms of literary record, and reveals how the desire to forge connections between Shakespeare's life and the Sonnets occluded his self-presentation as the 'deceasèd I' of a posthumous poet.

Who Was William Shakespeare?

Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118312279
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Who Was William Shakespeare? written by Dympna Callaghan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study of Shakespeare’s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular audiences Looks at 24 of the most significant plays and the sonnets through the lens of various aspects of Shakespeare’s life and historical environment Addresses four of the most significant issues that shaped Shakespeare’s career: education, religion, social status, and theatre Examines theatre as an institution and the literary environment of early modern London Explains and dispatches conspiracy theories about authorship

Shakespeare's Lives

Author : Samuel Schoenbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198186185
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Lives written by Samuel Schoenbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a study of the changing images and differing ways that the life of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has been interpreted throughout history. The author takes readers on a tour of the countless myths and legends which have arisen to explain the great dramatist's life and work, bringing the story right up to 1989. He reconstructs as much of the elusive author's life as possible, considering his family history, his economic standing, and his reputation with his peers; the Shakespeare who emerges may not always be the familiar one.

Shakespeare Jahrbuch

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Jahrbuch written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most volumes include "Shakespeare Bibliographie".

A Life of William Shakespeare. Biography

Author : Sidney Lee
Publisher : SEVERUS Verlag
ISBN 13 : 386347323X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book A Life of William Shakespeare. Biography written by Sidney Lee and published by SEVERUS Verlag. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Drama and Sonnets of William Shakespeare vol. 1

Author : Samiran Kumar Paul
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1649518676
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Drama and Sonnets of William Shakespeare vol. 1 written by Samiran Kumar Paul and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramas and Sonnets of William Shakespeare Vol. 1 is helpful to every learner of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who, doubtless, saw himself as merely another professional man of the theatre who moved almost casually from play-acting to playwriting. And indeed he was very much a man of his time, a man of the Elizabethan theatre, who learnt to exploit brilliantly the stagecraft, the acting, and the pub¬lic taste of his day. It happens very rarely in the history of literature that a craftsman who has acquired perfect control of his medium, masterly ease in handling the techniques and conventions of his day, is also a universal genius of the highest order, combining with his technical proficiency a unique ability to render experience in poetic language and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of hu¬man psychology. Man of the theatre, poet and expert in the human passions, Shakespeare has appealed equally to those who admire the art with which he renders a story in terms of the acted drama or the insight with which he presents states of mind and complex¬ities of attitude or the unsurpassed brilliance he shows in giving conviction and a new dimension to the utterances of his characters through the poetic speech he puts in their mouths. It is a remark¬able combination of qualities. Yet he was no poetic genius descending on the theatre from above, but a working dramatist who found himself in catering for the public theatre of his day. Unquestionably the greatest poetic dramatist of Europe, he was also Marlowe’s successor, the heir to a tradition of playwriting, which we saw developing in the preceding chapter. His contemporaries saw him as one dramatist among others—a good one, and a popular one, but no transcendent genius who left all others far behind—and to the end of his active life he showed no reluctance to collaborate with other playwrights.

Shakespeare's Home and Rural Life

Author : James Walter
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368849603
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Home and Rural Life written by James Walter and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Shakespeare's Living Art

Author : Rosalie Littell Colie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400867878
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Living Art written by Rosalie Littell Colie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"—verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres—to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what he does. She is particularly concerned with uncovering the ways in which Shakespeare used, misused, criticized, re-created, and sometimes revolutionized the received topics and devices of his craft. In this sense, Shakespeare's plays are seen as problem plays, each exploring the problematics of his craft and revealing his assessment of what was problematical. The author has chosen for study topics which connect Shakespeare with the long and rich continental Renaissance, in the hope that in the future Shakespeare might be, like Dante and Cervantes, an essential author in a comparatist's education. Usually a single topic dealing with some formal aspect of a play—the use of stereotypes to create a character highly original in stage practice, or the various manipulations of a mode (the pastoral, for example) rich in potentialities—is used to try to see in what particular ways Shakespeare shaped works that are still unique. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Life of Shakespeare

Author : Wilder Daniel W.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780259680475
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Life of Shakespeare written by Wilder Daniel W. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare, a Biography

Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230466576
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, a Biography written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... William Shakspeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to adopt such a conclusion; for children might be baptized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been the day as any other; and more likely than any earlier day, upon two arguments. First, because there was probably a tradition floating in the seventeenth century, that Shakspeare died upon his birth-day: now it is beyond a doubt that he died upon the 23d of April. Secondly, because it is a reasonable presumption, that no parents, living in a simple community, tenderly alive to the pioties of household duty, and in an age still clinging reverentially to the ceremonial ordinances of religion, would much delay the adoption of their child into the great family of Christ. Considering the extreme frailty of an infant's life during its two earliest years, to delay would often be to disinherit the child of its Christian privileges; privileges not the less eloquent to the feelings from being profoundly mysterious, and, in the English church, forced not only upon the attention, but even upon the eye, of the most thoughtless. According to the discipline of the English church, the unbaptized are buried with " maimed rites, ..".

The Life of Shakespeare

Author : Daniel Webster Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Shakespeare written by Daniel Webster Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

Author : Martin S. Bergmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429922604
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays written by Martin S. Bergmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments, so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the need to both reveal and conceal their own inner conflicts in their works. They leave residues in their works that, if we pay attention, can become building blocks that reveal aspects of the unconscious. Readers may find that the questions raised add to the pleasure of reading Shakespeare and that they deepens their understanding of his plays. Topics covered include the pivotal position of Hamlet, the poet and his calling, the Oedipus complex, intrapsychic conflict, the battle against paranoia and the homosexual compromise. By using psychoanalytic techniques in analyzing his plays and characters, the author reveals more about Shakespeare's hidden motivations and mental health.

The Everything Shakespeare Book

Author : Cork Milner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440524300
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Everything Shakespeare Book written by Cork Milner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without question, William Shakespeare is the most celebrated and quoted writer of all time. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to his writing, The Everything Shakespeare Book, 2nd Edition will help you fully appreciate and understand Shakespeare's works. In everyday language, this book covers everything from All's Well that Ends Well to The Winter's Tale-and every play and sonnet in between, featuring: Famous quotations Background information on Shakespeare's life and times An in-depth look at the controversy over the authorship of the works An Elizabethan English lesson Whether you're doing research for a school paper or simply building your literary knowledge, this book is the perfect introduction to the world and works of "The Bard of Avon." Cork Millner is a Shakespeare scholar, playwright, and author of several books, including To Be or Not To Be Shakespeare. He teaches writing at the University of California and Santa Barbara City College and has been on the literary staff for the prestigious Santa Barbara Writer's Conference for 20 years. He lives in Carpinteria, CA.

Godless Shakespeare

Author : Eric S. Mallin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826490425
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Godless Shakespeare written by Eric S. Mallin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polemic new reading of Shakespeare focusing on atheism, scepticism and belief.

Shakespeare's God

Author : Ivor Morris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135032572
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's God written by Ivor Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-23 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972. Shakespeare's God investigates whether a religious interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies is possible. The study places Christianity's commentary on the human condition side by side with what tragedy reveals about it. This pattern is identified using the writings of Christian thinkers from Augustine to the present day. The pattern in the chief phenomena of literary tragedy is also traced

A Life of William Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)

Author : William James Rolfe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656846290
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book A Life of William Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) written by William James Rolfe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Life of William Shakespeare The manuscript of this Life was finished, except for the Notes, in May, 1901, and from the beginning of June to the middle of September was kept in a Safety Vault at Cambridge. In October it mysteriously disappeared from my library. Though I had little doubt by whom it was taken, the evidence was purely circumstantial; and for that and other reasons it was impossible for me to make any effort to regain possession of it. The person who took it intended, after reading it, to return it without betraying himself, but he was afterwards tempted to put it into other hands with a false statement of its history, possibly with a view to its being utilized, in part if not as a whole, in print. This can hardly be done with safety, but it has complicated the affair and interfered with the return of the manuscript in time for it to go to press as promised. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.