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UNINA9910821994203321 |
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Holland Peter <1951-> |
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Titolo |
William Shakespeare / / Peter Holland |
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Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 |
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©2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-383-03502-4 |
0-19-154982-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (159 p.) |
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Collana |
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Very Interesting People ; ; 1 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dramatists, English - Early modern, 1500-1700 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The life, the works, and the influence of the world's most famous dramatist - ;Definitive, concise, and very interesting... 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. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. - |
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