Shakespeare : a life / Park Honan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honan, Park, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Biography.

Shakespeare, William.

Dramatists, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.

Dramatists, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This biography of William Shakespeare aims to alter the reader's perceptions of the actor, poet, & playwright, examining his relationships & attitude towards women, illuminating his needs & concerns, & explores the world of the playing companies.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; A Note on Conventions Used in the Text; I. A STRATFORD YOUTH; 1. BIRTH; Stratford; Master Bretchgirdle's arrival; The chamberlain's first son; 2. MOTHER OF THE CHILD; Mary Shakespeare at Henley Street; 'Hie incepit pestis'; Air and music; 3. JOHN SHAKESPEARE'S FORTUNES; In the bailiff's family; Debts and a downfall; 4. TO GRAMMAR SCHOOL; A classroom; Rhetoric at dawn; The Lord of Misrule; 5. OPPORTUNITY AND NEED; 'ln the Countrey'; Upon a promontory; Returning; 6. LOVE AND EARLY MARRIAGE; Anne Hathaway and the Shottery fields

A licence for lovers After Davy Jones's show; II. ACTOR AND POET OF THE LONDON STAGE; 7. TO LONDON-AND THE AMPHITHEATRE PLAYERS; Streets and conduits; Hirelings, repertory, and poets; Crab the dog; 8. ATTITUDES; Marlowe, Kyd, and Shoreditch; 'I am the sea': Titus Andronicus and the Shrew; The white rose of York; 9. THE CITY IN SEPTEMBER; Plague and prospects; The 'waspish little worme' and 'upstart Crow'; Shagbag, The Comedy of Errors, and Love's Labour's Lost; 10. A PATRON, POEMS, AND COMPANY WORK; To the 'Earle of Southampton'; The sonneteer; Politics and King John

11. A SERVANT OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN Sharing with the Burbages; Dreams and the doors of breath; Falstaff, Hal, and a Henriad; 12. NEW PLACE AND THE COUNTRY; Gains and losses; Two murders, New Place, and Mr Quiney's little faults; 'This is the Forest of Arden'; III. THE MATURITY OF GENIUS; 13. SOUTH OF JULIUS CAESAR'S TOWER; Ben Jonson's thumb; Shylock, the troubled Merchant of Venice, and Francis Meres; Julius Caesar at the Globe; 14. HAMLET'S QUESTIONS; Poets' wars and 'little eyases'; The Prince's world; Investments; 15. THE KING'S SERVANTS; King James's arrival

Pageantry, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well The 'plumèd troops'; 16. THE TRAGIC SUBLIME; Jennet's guest and Marie's lodger; Time's perpetuity: Macbeth and King Lear; Classical roots: Egypt, Rome, and Athens; IV. THE LAST PHASE; 17. TALES AND TEMPESTS; Susanna's marriage; Lands of'painful adventure' from Pericles to The Tempest; A fire at the Globe; 18. A GENTLEMAN'S CHOICES; Stratford friends and family affairs; Making a will and the struggles of the Harts; 'For all time'; The Arden and Shakespeare Families

Descendants of Shakespeare's Nephew Thomas Hart (b. 1605) Down to the Sale of the Birthplace in 1806A Note on the Shakespeare Biographical Tradition and Sources for his Life; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-00390-4

1-280-59473-X

9786613624567

0-19-977475-7

OCLC:

779180231