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Author Honan, Park

Title Shakespeare : a life / Park Honan
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages) : illustrations
Contents Birth -- Mother of the child -- John Shakespeare's fortunes -- To grammar school -- Opportunity and need -- Love and early marriage -- To London: and the amphitheatre players -- Attitudes -- City in September -- Patron, poems, and company work -- Servant of the Lord Chamberlain -- New place and the country -- South of Julius Caesar's Tower -- Hamlet's questions -- King's servants -- Tragic sublime -- Tales and tempests -- Gentleman's choices
Summary A biography of Shakespeare, the 16th century English actor, playwright and wise investor--investing first in the Globe Theater, where he became director, later in the Blackfriars Theater. While tracing Shakespeare's career, the author analyzes his plays, particularly the tragedies, and describes the carnival atmosphere which surrounded their performance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-450) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Shakespeare, William, (1564-1616) -- Biographies. ram
Subject Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Dramatists, English -- Early modern -- Biography
Auteurs dramatiques anglais -- 1500-1800 -- Biographies.
SUBJECT Stratford-upon-Avon (England) -- Biography
Subject England -- Stratford-upon-Avon
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98022114
ISBN 9780199774753
0199774757
0191590991
9780191590993
9786613624567
661362456X