Author: William Henry IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forgery of manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare
Author: William Henry IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forgery of manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Shakespeare and the Lawyers
Author: O Hood PhillipsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135032734
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
First published in 1972. Shakespeare's writing abounds with legal terms and allusions and in many of the plays the concept and working of the law is a significant theme. Shakespeare and the Lawyers gives a comprehensive survey of what Shakespeare wrote about the law and lawyers, and what has been written, particularly by lawyers, about Shakespeare's life and works in relation to the law. The book first reviews the recorded facts about Shakespeare's life and works, and his connection with the Inns of Court. It then discusses legal terms, allusions and plots in the plays; Shakespeare's treatment of the problems of law, justice and government; his description of lawyers and officers of the law; his references to actual legal personalities; and his trial scenes. Two further chapters consider the criticisms that have been made of Shakespeare's law, and the contribution to Shakespeare studies by lawyers.
Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespeareCatalogue
Author: Dobell, P.J. & A.E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Shakespeare and Elizabeth
Author: Helen HackettPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691128065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book explores the history of invented encounters between Shakespeare and the Queen Elizabeth I, and examines how and why the mythology of these two cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. It follows the history of meetings between the poet and the queen through historical novels, plays, paintings, and films, ranging from works such as Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth and the film Shakespeare in Love to lesser known examples. Raising questions about the boundaries separating scholarship and fiction, it looks at biographers and critics who continue to delve into links between these two. In the Shakespeare authorship controversy there have even been claims that Shakespeare was Elizabeth's secret son or lover, or that Elizabeth herself was the genius Shakespeare. The author examines the reasons behind the lasting appeal of their combined reputations, and locates this interest in their enigmatic sexual identities, as well as in the ways they represent political tensions and national aspirations.
Sexual Shakespeare
Author: Michael KeevakPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329757
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Shakespeare's sexuality has always been an ambiguous concept, despite the pleasant fictions of Shakespeare in Love. Now Michael Keevak examines such sources as anecdotes, imitations, forgeries, spurious works and portraits to show that this ambiguity has a long and twisted history.
Catalogue of the Library of the Late Francis B. Hayes of Boston, Mass. ...
Author: Francis Brown HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Author: Jane Kingsley-SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107170656
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.
William Shakespeare
Author: Karl ElzeShakespeare Without a Life
Author: Margreta de GraziaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry. For almost two centuries after his death, Shakespeare had no biography. The makings of one were not available. No chronology had been devised by which to coordinate the events in his life with the writing of his works. Nor was there an archive of primary materials on which to base a life. And the only work by Shakespeare written in the first person, the Sonnets, had yet to be critically edited and incorporated into the canon. Without a biography, how could Shakespeare have been valued and understood? In Shakespeare without a Life, Margreta de Grazia looks at aspects of Shakespeare's reception between 1600 and 1800 that have been all but lost to the now still prevailing biographical impulse. It recovers the anecdote as a form of literary criticism, retrieves the ancient category of genre as the canon's organizing rubric, demonstrates how the quest for authentic documents invalidated other forms of literary record, and reveals how the desire to forge connections between Shakespeare's life and the Sonnets occluded his self-presentation as the 'deceasèd I' of a posthumous poet.