The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical BiographyJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012 M05 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.
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locations associated with Shakespeare | 3 |
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and his contemporaries | 52 |
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15921593 | 86 |
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Page from the manuscript of Sir Thomas More | 273 |
16001603 | 277 |
Portrait of George Chapman | 293 |
16031605 | 300 |
Portrait of John Lowin | 304 |
Title page of the 1608 Quarto of King Lear | 322 |
16061609 | 330 |
Portrait of Thomas Middleton | 333 |
Portrait of the Earl of Southampton | 111 |
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Portrait of Richard Burbage | 138 |
Histories 15951596 | 162 |
Tragedy and Comedy 15951596 | 181 |
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The Shakespeare coat of arms | 206 |
Title page of The Spanish Tragedy | 227 |
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Portrait of Ben Jonson | 233 |
Will Kemp as depicted in his pamphlet The Nine Days Wonder | 239 |
Title page of Robert Armins The Two Maids of Moreclacke | 240 |
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Title page of the appendix to Robert Chesters Loves Martyr | 270 |
Title page of George Wilkins The Painful Adventures of Pericles | 348 |
16091611 | 360 |
16121616 | 384 |
Portrait of John Fletcher | 390 |
1616 and After | 414 |
The frontispiece to the First Folio 1623 20 Portrait of Sir John Suckling 417 | 417 |
Images of Shakespeare and his characters c 1820 | 426 |
A nineteenthcentury composite of Shakespeare portraits | 435 |
The Chandos portrait | 436 |
The Cobbe portrait | 437 |
Bibliography | 443 |
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