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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life / Gary Schmidgall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidgall, Gary, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poets in literature.
- Authors and patrons in literature.
- Literary patrons--Great Britain.
- Literary patrons.
- Poets, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
- Poets, English.
- Literature and society--England--History--16th century.
- Literature and society.
- Authors and patrons--England--History--16th century.
- Authors and patrons.
- Great Britain--Court and courtiers--History--16th century.
- Great Britain.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Relations with literary patrons.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Contemporaries.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare -- or any poet of the time -- ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the Globe. Students of Shakespeare and of Renaissance poetry will find Schmidgall's approach and conclusions both challenging and illuminating.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Coyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Citations; Introduction; 1 ""Thou Thing Most Abhorred"": The Poet and His Muse; 2 ""Dedicated Words"": The Strategies of Front Matter; 3 Poet's Labors Lost: Patronage in Shakespeare; 4 ""Chameleon Muse"": The Poets Life in Shakespeares Courts; 5 ""Fearful Meditation"": The Young Man and the Poets Life; Epilogue: Statues and Breathers; Appendix: Exemplary Front Matter; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813130941
- 0813130948
- 9780813157252
- 0813157250
- OCLC:
- 551510388
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