William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
Title William Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Ari Berk
Publisher Candlewick Press
Pages 17
Release 2010
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0763647942

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Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.

The Life and Times of William Shakespeare

The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
Title The Life and Times of William Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Peter Levi
Publisher
Pages 392
Release 1989
Genre Dramatists, English
ISBN 9780333511862

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Drawing on modern historical scholarship, rather than speculation, this book links the plays and poetry closely to the life of their author and sets the whole chronicle against the vivid tapestry backdrop of Shakespeare's world and time.

The Life of William Shakespeare

The Life of William Shakespeare
Title The Life of William Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Lois Potter
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 514
Release 2012-03-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1118231775

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The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern 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. Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced theatre reviewer Pays particular attention to Shakespeare's theatrical contemporaries and the ways in which they influenced his writing Offers an intriguing account of the life and work of the great poet-dramatist structured around the idea of memory Explores often neglected literary and historical contexts that illuminate Shakespeare's life and works

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Title A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author James Shapiro
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 618
Release 2009-10-13
Genre History
ISBN 0061840904

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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.

Soul of the Age

Soul of the Age
Title Soul of the Age PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Bate
Publisher Random House
Pages 495
Release 2009-04-07
Genre Drama
ISBN 1588367819

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“One man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in As You Like It, Bate deduces the crucial events of Shakespeare’s life and connects them to his world and work as never before. Here is the author as an infant, born into a world of plague and syphillis, diseases with which he became closely familiar; as a schoolboy, a position he portrayed in The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which a clever, cheeky lad named William learns Latin grammar; as a lover, married at eighteen to an older woman already pregnant, perhaps presaging Bassanio, who in The Merchant of Venice won a wife who could save him from financial ruin. Here, too, is Shakespeare as a soldier, writing Henry the Fifth’s St. Crispin’s Day speech, with a nod to his own monarch Elizabeth I’s passionate addresses; as a justice, revealing his possible legal training in his precise use of the law in plays from Hamlet to Macbeth; and as a pantaloon, an early retiree because of, Bate postulates, either illness or a scandal. Finally, Shakespeare enters oblivion, with sonnets that suggest he actively sought immortality through his art and secretly helped shape his posthumous image more than anyone ever knew. Equal parts masterly detective story, brilliant literary analysis, and insightful world history, Soul of the Age is more than a superb new recounting of Shakespeare’s experiences; it is a bold and entertaining work of scholarship and speculation, one that shifts from past to present, reality to the imagination, to reveal how this unsurpassed artist came to be.

Shakespeare for Kids

Shakespeare for Kids
Title Shakespeare for Kids PDF eBook
Author Colleen Aagesen
Publisher For Kids
Pages 0
Release 1999
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781556523472

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Presents the life and works of Shakespeare. Includes activities to introduce Elizabethan times, including making costumes, making and using a quill pen, and binding a book by hand.

The Private Life of William Shakespeare

The Private Life of William Shakespeare
Title The Private Life of William Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 447
Release 2021-09-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0192846302

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Tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables