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Author | : Jude Morgan |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250025044 |
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Named One of Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2014 There are so few established facts about how the son of a glove maker from Warwickshire became one of the greatest writers of all time that some people doubt he could really have written so many astonishing plays. We know that he married Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant and six years older than he, at the age of eighteen, and that one of their children died of the plague. We know that he left Stratford to seek his fortune in London, and eventually succeeded. He was clearly an unwilling craftsman, ambitious actor, resentful son, almost good-enough husband. But when and how did he also become a genius? The Secret Life of William Shakespeare pulls back the curtain to imagine what it might have really been like to be Shakespeare before a seemingly ordinary man became a legend. In the hands of acclaimed historical novelist Jude Morgan, this is a brilliantly convincing story of unforgettable richness, warmth, and immediacy.
Author | : Jude Morgan |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2014-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250025036 |
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Originally published: Great Britain: Headline Review, 2012.
Author | : Ari Berk |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763647942 |
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Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.
Author | : William Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-06-15 |
Genre | : Dramatists |
ISBN | : 9781734189001 |
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Author | : Lena Cowen Orlin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2021-08-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192661418 |
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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.
Author | : Elise Broach |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007-08-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312371326 |
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A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare—can Hero uncover the connections?
Author | : Jude Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : FICTION |
ISBN | : 9781250054838 |
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Originally published: Great Britain: Headline Review, 2012.
Author | : Clare Asquith |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2018-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1541774302 |
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In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. How, then, could such a remarkable man born into such violently volatile times apparently make no comment about the state of England in his work? He did. But it was hidden. Revealing Shakespeare's sophisticated version of a forgotten code developed by 16th-century dissidents, Clare Asquith shows how he was both a genius for all time and utterly a creature of his own era: a writer who was supported by dissident Catholic aristocrats, who agonized about the fate of England's spiritual and political life and who used the stage to attack and expose a regime which he believed had seized illegal control of the country he loved. Shakespeare's plays offer an acute insight into the politics and personalities of his era. And Clare Asquith's decoding of them offers answers to several mysteries surrounding Shakespeare's own life, including most notably why he stopped writing while still at the height of his powers. An utterly compelling combination of literary detection and political revelation, Shadowplay is the definitive expose of how Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time, and what he had to say about them.
Author | : Stephen Greenblatt |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393079848 |
Download Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Author | : David Ovason |
Publisher | : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1905570260 |
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As David Ovason reveals, many leading esoteric writers - alchemists, occultists and Rosicrucians -contributed to this 'Secret booke'. Among the more outstanding English literary figures who used the code were the mysterious adviser to Elizabeth I, John Dee, the turbulent author of The Alchemist, Ben Jonson, and the more classically-minded Edmund Spenser, whose poem 'The Faerie Queene' is the best-known esoteric work of the period. Shakespeare's Secret Booke reveals many other literary figures who together form a remarkable underground literary movement, including the most influential esotericist of the period, Jacob Boehme, and alchemists such as the English polymath Robert Fludd. Another was Shakespeare's contemporary, the youthful Johann Valentin Andreae, credited as author of The Chymical Wedding - a Rosicrucian work replete with sophisticated examples of encoding. --