04833nam 2200625 a 450 991081152670332120230421053849.01-383-00390-41-280-59473-X97866136245670-19-977475-7(CKB)2670000000160214(EBL)886544(OCoLC)779180231(SSID)ssj0000612842(PQKBManifestationID)11363196(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612842(PQKBWorkID)10570309(PQKB)10151632(Au-PeEL)EBL886544(CaPaEBR)ebr10537837(CaONFJC)MIL362456(MiAaPQ)EBC886544(EXLCZ)99267000000016021419980521d1998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrShakespeare[electronic resource] a life /Park HonanOxford Oxford University Press19981 online resource (512 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-811792-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-450) and index.Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; A Note on Conventions Used in the Text; I. A STRATFORD YOUTH; 1. BIRTH; Stratford; Master Bretchgirdle's arrival; The chamberlain's first son; 2. MOTHER OF THE CHILD; Mary Shakespeare at Henley Street; 'Hie incepit pestis'; Air and music; 3. JOHN SHAKESPEARE'S FORTUNES; In the bailiff's family; Debts and a downfall; 4. TO GRAMMAR SCHOOL; A classroom; Rhetoric at dawn; The Lord of Misrule; 5. OPPORTUNITY AND NEED; 'ln the Countrey'; Upon a promontory; Returning; 6. LOVE AND EARLY MARRIAGE; Anne Hathaway and the Shottery fieldsA licence for lovers After Davy Jones's show; II. ACTOR AND POET OF THE LONDON STAGE; 7. TO LONDON-AND THE AMPHITHEATRE PLAYERS; Streets and conduits; Hirelings, repertory, and poets; Crab the dog; 8. ATTITUDES; Marlowe, Kyd, and Shoreditch; 'I am the sea': Titus Andronicus and the Shrew; The white rose of York; 9. THE CITY IN SEPTEMBER; Plague and prospects; The 'waspish little worme' and 'upstart Crow'; Shagbag, The Comedy of Errors, and Love's Labour's Lost; 10. A PATRON, POEMS, AND COMPANY WORK; To the 'Earle of Southampton'; The sonneteer; Politics and King John11. A SERVANT OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN Sharing with the Burbages; Dreams and the doors of breath; Falstaff, Hal, and a Henriad; 12. NEW PLACE AND THE COUNTRY; Gains and losses; Two murders, New Place, and Mr Quiney's little faults; 'This is the Forest of Arden'; III. THE MATURITY OF GENIUS; 13. SOUTH OF JULIUS CAESAR'S TOWER; Ben Jonson's thumb; Shylock, the troubled Merchant of Venice, and Francis Meres; Julius Caesar at the Globe; 14. HAMLET'S QUESTIONS; Poets' wars and 'little eyases'; The Prince's world; Investments; 15. THE KING'S SERVANTS; King James's arrivalPageantry, Measure for Measure, and All's Well That Ends Well The 'plumèd troops'; 16. THE TRAGIC SUBLIME; Jennet's guest and Marie's lodger; Time's perpetuity: Macbeth and King Lear; Classical roots: Egypt, Rome, and Athens; IV. THE LAST PHASE; 17. TALES AND TEMPESTS; Susanna's marriage; Lands of'painful adventure' from Pericles to The Tempest; A fire at the Globe; 18. A GENTLEMAN'S CHOICES; Stratford friends and family affairs; Making a will and the struggles of the Harts; 'For all time'; The Arden and Shakespeare FamiliesDescendants of Shakespeare's Nephew Thomas Hart (b. 1605) Down to the Sale of the Birthplace in 1806A Note on the Shakespeare Biographical Tradition and Sources for his Life; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZIn the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date narrative of Shakespeare's life ever written, Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright. The young poet's relationships, his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters, are seen in a new light, illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions and concerns. Park Honan examines the world of the playing companies -- the power of patronage, theatrical conditions, and personal rivalryDramatists, EnglishEarly modern, 1500-1700BiographyStratford-upon-Avon (England)BiographyDramatists, English822.3/3BHonan Park165927MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811526703321Shakespeare482647UNINA