New Facts Regarding the Life of Shakespeare
Author: John Payne Collier
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 72
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New facts regarding the life of Shakespeare, a letter to T. Amyot
Author: John Payne Collier
Publisher:
Published: 1835
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife. New facts regarding the life of Shakespeare [by P. J. Collier] Shakespeare's will. Preface of the players [1623] Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1848
Total Pages: 618
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTruth About William Shakespeare
Author: David Ellis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0748653880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information
The Life of William Shakespeare
Author: Lois Potter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-03-07
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 1118231775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing. Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced theatre reviewer Pays particular attention to Shakespeare's theatrical contemporaries and the ways in which they influenced his writing Offers an intriguing account of the life and work of the great poet-dramatist structured around the idea of memory Explores often neglected literary and historical contexts that illuminate Shakespeare's life and works
The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Author: Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-09-16
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0192846302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells 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
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition)
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-05-03
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0393079848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamed 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.
William Shakespeare
Author: Ari Berk
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 0763647942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.
Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography
Author: Diana Price
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt successfully argues that "William Shakespeare" was the pen name of an aristocrat, and that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was a shrewd entrepreneur, not a dramatist."--BOOK JACKET.
Shakespeare's Lives
Author: Samuel Schoenbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 0198186185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
