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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781119605218
Year: 2021
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 192
Description:
Discover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of William Shakespeare Â
The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering readers a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family, and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually have about the man himself
The book is written using scholarly citations and references, but with an approachable style suitable for readers with little or no background knowledge of Shakespeare or the era in which he livedThe Life of the Author: William Shakespeare asks provocative questions about the playwright-poet™s preoccupation with gender roles and sexuality, and explores why it is so challenging to ascertain his political and religious allegiancesConservative or radical? Misogynist or proto-feminist? A lover of men or women or both? Patriot or xenophobe? This introduction to Shakespeare™s life and works offers no simple answers, but recognizes a man intensely responsive to the world around him, a playwright willing and able to collaborate with others and able to collaborate with others, and, of course, his exceptional, perhaps unique, contribution to literature in EnglishÂ
The book covers the entirety of William Shakespeare™s life (1564-1616), taking him from his childhood in Stratford-upon-Avon to his success in the theatre world of London
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781119605218
Year: 2021
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 192
Description:
Discover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of William Shakespeare Â
The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering readers a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family, and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually have about the man himself
The book is written using scholarly citations and references, but with an approachable style suitable for readers with little or no background knowledge of Shakespeare or the era in which he livedThe Life of the Author: William Shakespeare asks provocative questions about the playwright-poet™s preoccupation with gender roles and sexuality, and explores why it is so challenging to ascertain his political and religious allegiancesConservative or radical? Misogynist or proto-feminist? A lover of men or women or both? Patriot or xenophobe? This introduction to Shakespeare™s life and works offers no simple answers, but recognizes a man intensely responsive to the world around him, a playwright willing and able to collaborate with others and able to collaborate with others, and, of course, his exceptional, perhaps unique, contribution to literature in EnglishÂ
The book covers the entirety of William Shakespeare™s life (1564-1616), taking him from his childhood in Stratford-upon-Avon to his success in the theatre world of London