Author: Edgar I. FrippPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Master Richard Quyny
Author: Edgar I. FrippPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Contemporary Review
Author: Notes and Queries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Shakespeare on the Record
Author: Hannah Leah CrumméPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350003522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Shakespeare on Record is a unique guide to major Shakespeare discoveries and the archival insight that made them possible. With contributions from experts at The National Archives, the Folger Shakespeare Library and leading universities, the book explores and explains the bureaucratic processes and governmental practices that shaped life and records in Renaissance England – making it a key resource for both Shakespeare scholars and researchers of early modern lives. Chapters examine key documents concerning property, the law, coats of arms and investments, which relate to Shakespeare's lives in both Stratford and London. Several of The National Archives' collection of over 120 documents which illuminate Shakespeare's life are profiled here for the first time. Richly illustrated throughout, this is a key resource for both Shakespeare scholars and researchers of early modern lives.
A Descriptive Calendar of the Ancient Manuscripts and Records in the Possession of the Corporation of STratford-upon-Avon
Author: Stratford-upon-Avon (England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Shakespeare's Friends
Author: Kate Emery PoguePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313065519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Taking seriously the commonplace that a man is known by the company he keeps—and particularly by the company he keeps over his lifetime—one can learn more about just about anyone by learning more about his friends. By applying this notion to Shakespeare, this book offers insight into the life of the most famous playwright in history, and one of the most elusive figures in literature. The book consists of sketches of Shakespeare's contact and relationships with the people known to have been close friends or acquaintances, revealing aspects of the poet's life by emphasizing ways in which his life was intertwined with theirs. Though it is difficult to get to know this most famous of playwrights, through this work readers can gain insight into aspects of his life and personality that may otherwise have been hidden. Shakespeare, more than any other writer in the western world, based much of his work on the consequences of friendship. Given the value placed on friends in his writing, many readers have wondered about the role friendship played in his own life. This work gives readers the chance to learn more about Shakespeare's friends, who they were and what they can tell us about Shakespeare and his times. For instance, Richard Field was a boyhood friend with whom Shakespeare went to school in Stratford. Field became a well-known London printer. The details of Field's life illuminate both the details of Shakespeare's boyhood education and the poet's relationship with the printing, publishing, and book-selling world in London. Francis Collins, a lawyer who represented Shakespeare in a number of legal dealings, drafted both versions of Shakespeare's will. This life-long friend was one of the last men eve to see Shakespeare pick up a pen to write. Through these vivid and animated sketches, readers will come to know about Shakespeare's life and times. While the book has a lively, accessible narrative tone within chapters, its organization and features make it highly useful to the school library market as well as the academic world. It contains cross references, a detailed Table of Contents and a highly organized structure with uniformity across sections and chapters. The writing is accessible and could be easily used by upper-level high school students looking to augment school assignments.
Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated the Print Collector
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
V. 1-3 include "Bibliographies of modern authors by Henry Danielson."
Shakespeare's Stratford
Author: Edgar I. FrippPublisher: AMS Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Description of Stratford-upon-Avon in Shakespeare's time.
The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Author: Lena Cowen OrlinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019266140X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables. It also shows how the histories of some of Shakespeare's neighbours illuminate aspects of his own life. Throughout, we encounter a Shakespeare who consciously and with purpose designed his life. Having witnessed the business failures of his merchant father, he determined not to follow his father's model. His early wedding freed him from craft training to pursue a literary career. His wife's work, and probably the assistance of his parents and brothers, enabled him to make the first of the property purchases that grounded his life as a gentleman. With his will, he provided for both his daughters in ways that were suitable to their circumstances; Anne Shakespeare was already protected by dower rights in the houses and lands he had acquired. His funerary monument suggests that the man of 'small Latin and less Greek' in fact had some experience of an Oxford education. Evidences are that he commissioned the monument himself.
William Shakespeare
Author: Samuel SchoenbaumPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195051612
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
An abridged edition that will remain the standard biography for many years.