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Shakespeare and Biography

By David Bevington

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0199586489, 9780199586486
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
778 kB (796383 bytes)
Series
Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Pages
179\188
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-05-10 18:11:18
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Description

Shakespeare and Biography is not a new biography of Shakespeare. Instead, it is a study of what biographers have said about Shakespeare, from the first formal biography in the early 18th century by Nicholas Rowe to Stephen Greenblatt, James Shapiro, Jonathan Bate, Germaine Greer, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Park Honan, Rene Weis, and others who have written recent biographical accounts of England's greatest writer. The emphasis is on what sorts of issues these biographers have found especially interesting in relation to sex and gender, politics, religion, pessimism, misanthropy, jealousy, aging, family relationships, the end of a career, the end of life. How has Shakespeare's contemplation of these issues changed and grown, and in what ways do those changes reflect new cultural developments in our world as it continues to reinterpret Shakespeare?

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