The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography

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John Wiley & Sons, 2012 M03 7 - 512 pages
The 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
 

Contents

List of Abbreviations
Nemo Sibi Nascitur 15711578
Hic et Ubique 15781588
This Mans Art and That Mans Scope 15881592
TigersHearts 15921593
The Dangerous Year 15931594
Our Usual Manager of Mirth 15941595
The Strongst and Surest Way to Get Histories 1595
These Words Are Not Mine 15991601
Looking Before and After 16001603
This Most Balmy Time 16031605
Past the Size of Dreaming 16061609
Like an Old Tale 16091611
The Second Burden 16121616
In the Mouths of Men 1616 and After
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When Love Speaks Tragedy and Comedy 15951596
You Had a Father Let Your Son Say So 15961598
Unworthy Scaffold 15981599

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About the author (2012)

Lois Potter recently retired as Ned B. Allen Chair at the University of Delaware. She has also taught at the Universities of Aberdeen, Leicester, and Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and at Tsuda College, Tokyo. Her publications include Twelfth Night: Text and Performance (1986), the Arden edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen (1997, 2001), and Shakespeare in Performance: Othello (2002). She is also the editor of two volumes in the Revels History of Drama in English series (1981 and 1984), and has been a frequent reviewer of plays for the Times Literary Supplement, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare Bulletin.

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