William Shakespeare / Peter Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holland, Peter, 1951- author.

Series:

Very interesting people ; 1.

Oxford scholarship online.

Very interesting people ; 1

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William.

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

Dramatists, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the 'Very Interesting People Series' provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1 Background, early life, and marriage; 2 Making a career: early plays and poems; 3 Fame in London, prosperity in Stratford; 4 Public figure, King's Man; 5 Plays, poems, and profits; 6 Death and memorials; 7 Becoming a classic; 8 Eighteenth-century Shakespeare: England and overseas; 9 Romantic Shakespeare; 10 Responses of the Victorian age; 11 Modernist and multinational Shakespeare; 12 Worldwide Will; 13 The universal author; Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

First published in the "Oxford dictionary of national biography" 2004.

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Bibliography: pages141-142. - Includes index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03502-4

0-19-154982-7

OCLC:

930058970