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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821994203321

Autore

Holland Peter <1951->

Titolo

William Shakespeare / / Peter Holland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-383-03502-4

0-19-154982-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Very Interesting People ; ; 1

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Dramatists, English - Early modern, 1500-1700

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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. -