Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
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.
“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 ...
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
... Age , etc. , cannot be so explained ; The Cuckqueens ' and Cuckolds ... Elizabethan stage which we know nothing of and which we have as yet no means ... in author , and in place of production , renders them all the more valuable ...
This is also the first biography to explore in detail Marlowe's relations with fellow playwrights such as Kyd and Shakespeare, and to show how Marlowe's relations with Shakespeare evolved from 1590 to 1593.
... in- author. Herbert , was but one of a group of remark- able men , with whom , by his residence at Cambridge , his ... age . The simple mention of the above names will indicate the powerful influences by which his mind and style ...
... Elizabethan period saw the drama struggling into maturity . The early type of the time was scholarly in tone and aristocratic in author- ship . An example of the earliest type of playwright is Fulke Greville , Lord Brooke ( 1554-1628 ) ...
... in Author Catalogue . ] Luxembourg Luxury , Ease , and Vice in Outspoken Essays ...... Practical Ethics [ See also Capital . ] Constitutional History ... Elizabethan Age ... Iullen , A. H. H 11 Q9 [ See also Ballads ; Hymns ; Odes ; ...
In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing us the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times—unveiling Donne as the ...