The Shakespeare Circle

The Shakespeare Circle

Author: Paul Edmondson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 110705432X

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This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare's life and times.


Kind-Heart's Dream

Kind-Heart's Dream

Author: Henry Chettle

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021625489

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Originally published in 1592, this early modern play tells the story of a young maid's dream of true love and the trials and tribulations that she and her lover must face to achieve it. Written in blank verse and featuring a cast of memorable characters, this play is a delightful and entertaining work of literature that will enchant readers of all ages. 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.


English literary afterlives

English literary afterlives

Author: Elisabeth Chaghafi

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1526144972

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English Literary Afterlives traces life narratives of early modern authors created for them after their deaths by readers or publishers, who retrospectively tried to make sense of the author’s life and works. In a series of case-studies of the reception history of major poets – Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, as well as Robert Greene, the first ‘celebrity author’ – within a generation of their deaths, it shows how those authors were posthumously fashioned and refashioned. It argues that during the early modern period there is a gradual movement towards biographical readings that attempt to find the author in the works, which in turn led to the emergence of written lives that consider poets not in terms of their ‘public’ lives but in terms of their poetic activity, i.e. the beginnings of literary biography. Will be of interest to students and scholars of several canonical early modern authors.


A Dead Man in Deptford

A Dead Man in Deptford

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0099541394

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'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn' Irish Times A Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by the theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England. 'A fast, funny, flawless recreation' Hilary Mantel See also: Earthly Powers


Shakespeare and the Folktale

Shakespeare and the Folktale

Author: Charlotte Artese

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0691190860

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CYMBELINE; The Wager on the Wife's Chastity; Yolando Pino- Saavedra, "The Wager on the Wife's Chastity"; Kurt Ranke, "The Innkeeper of Moscow"; Italo Calvino, "Wormwood"; J. M. Synge, "The Lady O'Conor"; Snow White; Yolando Pino- Saavedra, "Blanca Rosa and the Forty Thieves"; Violet Paget, "The Glass Coffin"; Alan Bruford, "Lasair Gheug, the King of Ireland's Daughter"; The Maiden Who Seeks Her BrothersPeter Christian Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, "The Twelve Wild Ducks"; VIII. THE TEMPEST; The Magic Flight; Joseph Jacobs, "Nix Nought Nothing"; Peter Buchan, "Green Sleeves"; Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, "The Two Kings' Children"; Zora Neale Hurston, "Jack Beats the Devil"; Marie- Catherine d'Aulnoy, "The Bee and the Orange Tree.".


Writing Robert Greene

Writing Robert Greene

Author: Kirk Melnikoff

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780754657019

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The first essay collection dedicated to the work of Shakespeare's contemporary Robert Greene, Writing Robert Greene considers Greene's writings in the contexts of his extensive engagement with the popular print market and his work as a professional dramatist for the London-based theatre companies. The volume includes three valuable appendices (presenting apocrypha; edition information; and a list of Greene's works by year published) and an annotated bibliography of recent scholarship.


Writing Robert Greene

Writing Robert Greene

Author: Kirk Melnikoff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-17

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1134787731

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Robert Greene, contemporary of Shakespeare and Marlowe and member of the group of six known as the "University Wits," is the subject of this essay collection, the first to be dedicated solely to his work. Although in his short lifetime Greene published some three dozen prose works, composed at least five plays, and was one of the period's most recognized-even notorious-literary figures, his place within the canon of Renaissance writers has been marginal at best. Writing Robert Greene offers a reappraisal of Greene's career and of his contribution to Elizabethan culture. Rather than drawing lines between Greene's work for the pamphlet market and for the professional theatres, the essays in the volume imagine his writing on a continuum. Some essays trace the ways in which Greene's poetry and prose navigate differing cultural economies. Others consider how the full spectrum of his writing contributes to an emergent professional discourse about popular print and theatrical culture. The volume includes an annotated bibliography of recent scholarship on Greene and three valuable appendices (presenting apocrypha; edition information; and editions organized by year of publication).