LEADER 05603nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910141334603321 005 20230801221918.0 010 $a1-118-23174-0 010 $a1-118-23175-9 010 $a1-118-23177-5 010 $a1-280-58643-5 010 $a9786613616265 010 $a1-118-23176-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160734 035 $a(EBL)871501 035 $a(OCoLC)781864174 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000663230 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11447112 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000663230 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10603245 035 $a(PQKB)10870093 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000667309 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12238908 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000667309 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10683954 035 $a(PQKB)11661385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC871501 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL871501 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10540957 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL361626 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160734 100 $a20111104d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe life of William Shakespeare$b[electronic resource] $ea critical biography /$fLois Potter 210 $aMalden, Mass. $cWiley-Blackwell$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (511 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell critical biographies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-631-20784-8 311 $a1-118-28152-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Life of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Critical Biography; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; The Shakespeare Family Tree; 1 "Born into the World": 1564-1571; Birth and Baptism; William Shakespeare's Name; John and Mary Shakespeare; Stratford; The Imaginative World; Notes; 2 "Nemo SibiNascitur": 1571-1578; Grammar School; The Books; Role Models; Becoming a Writer; Becoming an Actor; Recognition; Notes; 3 "Hic et Ubique": 1578-1588; John Shakespeare's Finances; Shakespeare After School; Theater in the 1580's; Marriage and Children; Notes 327 $a4 "This Man's Art and That Man's Scope": 1588-1592 The Playwriting Business and Henslowe; Playwrights of the 1580's; Art and Scope and Shakespeare; Notes; 5 "Tigers' Hearts": 1592-1593; The Early Quartos: Competing Theories; History and the Henry VI Plays; 1 Henry VI; 2 and 3 Henry VI; Actors vs Playwrights; Titus Andronicus; Notes; 6 "The Dangerous Year": 1593-1594; Venus and Adonis; Summer 1593; Lucrece; WS and HW; The Early Sonnets; Notes; 7 "Our Usual Manager of Mirth": 1594-1595; Theater Companies of 1594; Shakespeare the Actor; The Taming of the Shrew; The Two Gentlemen of Verona 327 $aThe Comedy of Errors Writing for the Lord Chamberlain's Men; Notes; 8 "The Strong'st and Surest Way to Get": Histories, 1595-1596; Richard III; Edward III; King John; Richard II; Notes; 9 "When Love Speaks": Tragedy and Comedy, 1595-1596; Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Love's Labour's Lost; "Every Word Doth Almost Tell My Name"; Notes; 10 "You Had a Father; Let Your Son Say So": 1596-1598; The Coat of Arms and Hamnet Shakespeare; 1 Henry IV; The Merchant of Venice; No Place and New Place; The Merry Wives of Windsor; 2 Henry IV; Much Ado About Nothing; The After-Effects of Grief 327 $aNotes 11 "Unworthy Scaffold": 1598-1599; Ben Jonson; The Scaffold and the Globe; Satire and Satiric Drama; As You Like It; Julius Caesar; Henry V; Notes; 12 "These Words Are Not Mine": 1599-1601; Recognition: Palladis Tamia and The Passionate Pilgrim; Quotation: Belvedere, England's Parnassus, and the Parnassus Plays; Appropriation: The Essex Rebellion; Attribution: Love's Martyr; Revision: Sir Thomas More; Notes; 13 "Looking Before and After": 1600-1603; Hamlet; Stratford Land; Twelfth Night; Troilus and Cressida; The End of the Reign; Notes; 14 "This Most Balmy Time": 1603-1605 327 $aWelcoming the New Reign The 1603/1604 Season; The King's Playwright?; Measure for Measure; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Notes; 15 "Past the Size of Dreaming": 1606-1609; "Late Style"; All's Well That Ends Well; Timon of Athens; Guarini and Tragicomedy; Antony and Cleopatra; Pericles; Coriolanus; Events in Stratford, Events in London; Notes; 16 "Like an Old Tale": 1609-1611; Embarrassments of 1609: Troilus and Cressida, "Shakespeare's Sonnets," and Pericles; The Masque; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; The Tempest; Notes; 17 "The Second Burden": 1612-1616; John Fletcher and Cardenio 327 $aHenry VIII and Its Aftermath 330 $aThe Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on often neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing. 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