Potter The Life of William Shakespeare

A Critical Biography
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-23177-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Critical Biographies

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Potter, Lois

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vi
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
List of Abbreviations x
The Shakespeare Family Tree xii
1 "Born into the World": 1564-1571 1
2 "Nemo SibiNascitur": 1571-1578 21
3 "Hic et Ubique": 1578-1588 40
4 "This Man's Art and That Man's Scope":1588-1592 64
5 "Tigers' Hearts": 1592-1593 86
6 "The Dangerous Year": 1593-1594 106
7 "Our Usual Manager of Mirth": 1594-1595134
8 "The Strong'st and Surest Way to Get":Histories, 1595-1596 162
9 "When Love Speaks": Tragedy and Comedy,1595-1596 181
10 "You Had a Father; Let Your Son Say So":1596-1598 201
11 "Unworthy Scaffold": 1598-1599 231
12 "These Words Are Not Mine": 1599-1601258
13 "Looking Before and After": 1600-1603277
14 "This Most Balmy Time": 1603-1605 300
15 "Past the Size of Dreaming": 1606-1609330
16 "Like an Old Tale": 1609-1611 360
17 "The Second Burden": 1612-1616 384
18 "In the Mouths of Men": 1616 and After 414
Bibliography 443
Index 475

Über Autor(innen)

Lois Potter recently retired as Ned B. Allen Chair at theUniversity of Delaware. She has also taught at the Universities ofAberdeen, Leicester, and Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and at TsudaCollege, Tokyo. Her publications include Twelfth Night: Text andPerformance (1986), the Arden edition of The Two NobleKinsmen (1997, 2001), and Shakespeare in Performance:Othello (2002). She is also the editor of two volumes in theRevels History of Drama in English series (1981 and 1984), and hasbeen a frequent reviewer of plays for the Times LiterarySupplement, Shakespeare Quarterly, and ShakespeareBulletin.